Word: overruning
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Time after time they were nearly overrun. The vast patience of British troops held them fast in their rain-filled holes. When relief troops of the British 2nd Division finally arrived, Colonel Laverty marched out with a ragged half of his battalion. Arthur Campbell, who was among the relieving troops, saw.the survivors' pride and misery, and resolved to write their story. Campbell (who won a Military Cross later for gallantry) has written one of the great stories of World War II, an account of unmatched hardship and bravery, ranking with Guadalcanal, Tarawa. Iwo Jima and Okinawa. At Kohima...
...scoffed at Harris' reasoning. Said Rowe: "I do not believe it will help any Canadian magazine." Later, in the usually staid Senate, Ontario's Norman Lambert and Manitoba's Thomas Crerar accused their own Liberal party of abandoning its free-trade traditions. But the objections were overrun by the impatient Liberal drive for a vote. In three hours, Harris' carefully timed bill cleared the House; the Senate rubber-stamped it in a single sitting...
...past year it has become the biggest of all Gulf Coast oil booms. Thirty-five companies have sunk 171 producing wells deep into the treeless flat, now get around 24,000 bbls. daily from the field. Said one Houston newsman: "The whole town is on the verge of being overrun by derricks." Oil rigs are creeping within 100 yds. of the residences and businesses off Houston's primary north-south thoroughfare, South Main Street. One derrick stands 75 yds. from the roller coaster at Playland Park: another is within No. 7-iron distance (125 yds.) of the South Main...
...office, took a pencil and memorandum pad and went to work again on the statement he would make to the people. At noon he had a swim, half an hour's rest, lunch, and was back in his office at 2:30, only to find that it was overrun by radio and television technicians setting up for the speech that night. He took his note pad and a handful of pencils into the Cabinet Room and sat alone at the huge Cabinet table. Occasionally Ann Whitman, his personal secretary, went in for dictation of a few paragraphs. Speechwriter Kevin...
...American tourist who landed in Paris last week while it was overrun by visitors to the International Auto Show plaintively wrote her daughter in the U.S.: "We spend all our time at the American Express office. Here we can sit down and talk quietly. And it's the only place in town with a clean rest room...