Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago, a city not overrun with heroes, is embracing a new candidate, a long-ball hitter named Ronald Dale Kittle, who has been stunning the American League. He is close to homegrown, coming from 25 miles away in Gary, Ind., where his father is an ironworker. After failing with the Los Angeles Dodgers at 20, the son also walked the skeletons of buildings for a while. Kittle is constructed on the order of a building: long lines and sharp angles, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, a look of granite. He is like Chicago...
MAYBE a Third World center would be overrun by radicals who would drown out the moderate voices, making it a bastion of separatism Never mind that the very existence of those oh-so-abrasive radical elements suggests the existence of a real problem. Maybe a Third World center isn't the answer to the race relations problem. But the Foundation, as presently constituted, is barely a step in the right direction...
...came up with the Crimson's most inspiring match of the afternoon, bouncing back from a 6-3 first-set loss to overrun Shelburne in the second and third stanzas, 6-0, 6-2. I wasn't concentrating well in the first set." Pe recalled, "but then I felt that if I was going to lose, I would at least hit the ball...
...attempts to paint the Soviet Union as the "real" nuclear menace. The only thing more horrifying than the prospect of the United States fighting a nuclear war is the prospect of the United States starting one. Surely those games have been played out, where vastly outnumbered NATO forces are overrun in Europe and the last hope of the West is America's nuclear umbrella...
...some eight centuries, the site was overrun by tropical growth, shaken by quakes and lashed by monsoon rains. Still, when the British Lieutenant Governor of Java, Thomas Raffles, rediscovered the ruins in 1814, he was sufficiently impressed to order a cleanup of the stone pyramid. The Dutch, who regained Java from the British in 1816, continued the custodial work, which culminated in a major restoration after the turn of the century, but their well-meant efforts failed to stem continuing damage from tremors and poor drainage...