Word: overrun
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...reasons. For one thing, Communist mines and ambushes have upset plans to supply the main ARVN column (10,000 men) on Route 9 by road. In combat, ARVN commanders have often been unable to spell out their needs in comprehensible English when faced with real trouble. Hill 31 was overrun largely because the first Cobra gunships on the scene carried no armor-piercing rockets: the ARVN officer who radioed for support forgot to mention that 20 snarling Communist tanks were churning up to his defense perimeter...
...base is five miles from a point where a South Vietnamese ranger base was overrun last weekend with severe losses to the defenders...
South Vietnamese army headquarters acknowledged severe losses to a ranger battalion overrun by North Vietnamese troops on a hilltop six miles inside Laos Sunday. A communique said of the 450 men in the battalion, 100 were killed, 145 wounded and 78 missing...
...gray symbolically over all Italian life. The narrator is the editor of an antismog magazine called Purification, financed by an industrialist who is one of the guiltiest smog makers. Nothing might appear more hopeless than the quandary of an Italian couple in "The Argentine Ant," whose baby is overrun by marching ants, against whom all antidotes fail. But the minor characters of this crawly little fable -like Captain Brauni with his Rube Goldberg ant traps-have a jaunty energy that enables them to survive not only their plague but the plague of their author: dark moralizing...
...next day and went into seclusion, refusing to speak to reporters for three weeks. But the cover-up was under way before that. According to the FBI report, the Guardsmen got together and agreed to say that they had been in danger and had fired to keep from being overrun by students who wanted to grab their guns and bayonet them. The Beacon-Journal report explodes this flimsy story by quoting a Guardsman as saying, "The guys have been saying that we got to get together and stick to the same story, that it was our lives or them...