Word: overruning
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...Acting Senior Tutor of Dunster House did not assume office--he was carried in feet first. A group of students picked him up, bore him into his official residence, and deposited him on the vestibule with a loud bump. Since then, Dunster men have overrun his place, arranging his furniture, and drinking his excellent sherry. And although Carroll F. "Stan" Miles is heard to complain that his comfortable quarters have become a Central Terminal, everybody knows he loves...
Last week a Red offensive hit the Bootleggers' lines at midnight. One ROK outpost was overrun; Communist raiders poured into the Bootleg trenches. But the 12th stood fast, keeping a steady fire on the Red infantry, bayoneting those who broke through the barrage. At 1:40 a.m. the Communist attack fell apart; 94 North Koreans lay dead in the snow; hundreds more had been wounded. The Bootleggers' losses: 24 killed...
Then it happened. One night in December 405, the Rhine froze, and a German raiding party crossed. They found only shadow garrisons against them; the Legions had been called back to Italy to resist Alaric. The word spread, and by spring the unopposed German tribes had overrun eastern Gaul and were pouring west to the sea and south to the Pyrenees. Britain was cut off from Rome-and the Dark Ages were approaching on the double. But these matters were hard to sense fully in misty Britain. All that seemed perfectly clear to some of Felix's bolder friends...
...suggest General Sir Gerald Templer who, in such a short time, has achieved so much in working to clear Communism in the Malayan Peninsula? Without his ability the Communists will certainly . . . overrun all of Southeast Asia...
They died by the dozens, but still they came on. By 3 a.m. they had overrun two hilltop posts on the perimeter's north face, finishing off the Moroccan and Thai defenders with knives, bayonets, machetes, grenades. Within minutes the Viet Minh were putting mortar fire on Nasan's vital airstrip. Next day the attackers had backed off of one hill, and French paratroopers recaptured the other...