Word: overrunning
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...advantages enough to the new arrangement to counter-balance whatever is lost to Freshmen by way of tradition and segregation. Finding themselves shipped south of the border and down on the river, they will immediately have the chance to mix with upperclassmen. Old class lines have been so thoroughly overrun, and in fact desecrated, by the acceleration program that it would be wrong to set the Freshmen apart and wholly to themselves...
...plunge a stick that would set off 2,000 lb. of explosives and wreck the second largest bridge in the Far East across the Irrawaddy River. British 25-pounders, manned by Indians, were hurling shells in the direction of Mandalay, which has been burning since April 4th and is overrun with dacoits and traitors who are shooting at the Chinese garrison in the darkness through the completely flattened ruins of a city of onetime 120,000 population, where now only stand the red-washed, almost encircled walls of the palace of Burma's kings. The last rear guard...
...conference statement on the political bases of a just and durable peace proclaimed that the first post-war duty of the church "will be the achievement of a just peace settlement with due regard to the welfare of all the nations, the vanquished, the overrun and the victors alike." In contrast to the blockade of Germany after World War I, it called for immediate provision of food and other essentials after the war for every country needing them. "We must get back," explained Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell, "to a stable material prosperity not only to strengthen...
...something else. They feared that, before Prohibition came again, youths of the Army would be seduced into swilling beer at taverns near their camps. God forbid, said the ladies, that World War II should produce a nation of beer drinkers. Weren't things bad enough, with the U.S. overrun with cigaret smokers who got the habit in World...
...Eastern Theater of war moved on. Americans still held a corner of Luzon, British still held Singapore, but the Japanese had overrun most of the Philippines and Malaya. Now their attack was rolling on toward their third major objective, the Indies -a new terrain with a new cast of defenders, with new military problems -with new and still bigger stakes to play...