Word: overruning
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...been a misty, mountainous no man's land. Khe Sanh, where 6,000 Marines had endured a bloody 77-day siege in 1968, was a moonscape of shell craters flecked by twisted steel runway sheets and discarded shell casings. A few miles to the south, the Rockpile was overrun by weeds. On a bluff overlooking the Laotian border, the hulks of battered Soviet tanks still lay rusting at the Lang Vei Special Forces camp, where ten Americans and 225 South Vietnamese died in a single night of hand-to-hand combat...
...Lindsay's problems mix the pathetic and the bizarre; to his horror welfare officials recently lodged an indigent family at the Waldorf Astoria for a day, claiming absurdly that there was no room elsewhere. Many others on relief, unable to find homes, live in exorbitantly priced but squalid hotels overrun with vice and drug addiction...
Within half an hour, the murder site was overrun with milling MPs and representatives of the CID. While one officer wandered around ordering everyone not to touch anything, another investigator calmly used the phone, leaving a smudged collage of fingerprints. In the end, a variety of fingerprints found throughout the house turned out to belong to investigating agents. Because the house remained unsealed for at least two hours, no one could be sure whether dirt stains discovered on the rug had come in with the investigators or with earlier intruders. In addition, the area around the base was supposed...
...content with producing commercials and 70% of all the station identifications that racket through the middle ear of Middle America, P. & T. is now seeping into the semiconsciousness of the whole world. The BBC's pop network is overrun with Pepper & Tanner jingles ("It's what's happening . . . Radio One"). So is station Rediffusion Singapore. For the state radio system of Malawi, P. & T. tapes are dubbed in Chitumbuka, a native dialect. It was P. & T., naturally, which prerecorded the "This Is Apollo Weather" parody "intros" played by the astronauts during the Apollo 12 moon shot...
...Sunday night meeting had just broken up when news came that the Syrians had overrun Irbid in northern Jordan. Kissinger's deputy, Brigadier General Alexander Haig, ran outside, called the Action Group members back to the situation room. They recommended putting N.C., the on 82nd alert?another Airborne at move Fort Bragg, designed mainly to influence Moscow...