Word: overrunning
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...experienced operators that any rival to the President would need to rally in order to organize a coup. Senator Wendell Ford, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, drew on the homespun philosophy of his native Kentucky to counsel caution. Said he: "We have a saying: Don't overrun the rabbit...
...city is fairly overrun with security men, including the regular militsia in their gray uniforms and the forbidding KGB in their trademark baggy business suits. The Olympic areas are also patrolled by soldiers, some carrying Kalashnikov automatic rifles. Scores of dissidents have been arrested or exiled, while others have been ordered to take vacations outside the capital. Late last week Moscow officials virtually sealed off the city; no trucks or cars are allowed to enter without a pass certifying urgent business, such as food delivery...
Carter learned a basic lesson in civics when his proposal fell on hard times in the Senate. A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee learned that federal agency budget requests would overrun budgetary ceilings and Carter's plan--which called for a $13.3 million budgetary supplement-- was put on the back burner...
Besides security and fuel costs, Brown cited delays in the construction of the city's new high schools and increases in the cost of bilingual education and special needs programs as reasons for the cost overrun...
...notified that the funds had been transferred. The very next day Quezon was put aboard a U.S. submarine and taken to safety. (He died in the U.S. in 1944.) MacArthur himself was ordered to leave Corregidor soon afterward. The garrison,, he left behind fought on until it was overrun...