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Word: overruns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another hill, Serb troops were uncharacteristically subdued as they awaited the next turn in the war. Their cries of defiance lacked conviction amid a newfound fatalism. "If we pull our artillery out," said Goran Bogic, "the Muslims will overrun us in 10 minutes." In Sarajevo, Serb forces not only held to a cease-fire but also started placing some heavy weapons under U.N. control -- though U.N. troops were not even certain the meager haul of cannon had ever been emplaced around Sarajevo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Time We Mean It | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

While the dorm rooms of Peninsula Council members have yet to be overrun by angry liberal forces, the battle analogy...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The Absence of Rational Minds | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...clothes on their backs, they fled across a pasture to safety and took refuge for 70 days with friends and then in an apartment in town. When they returned -- after the fire in April that killed more than 70 Davidians -- they found bullets in their home and the place overrun by FBI agents, who had used it as a command post. Now, months later, they still drive 100 miles a week to take their daughter, who remains traumatized by the events, to a therapist. "It won't be over for us till there are no more Davidians," says Robert Spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: After the Apocalypse | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

...control is just an assertion of something that the Constitution already forbids, judges have never read the Second Amendment to prohibit most gun control. "The Second Amendment is about the right of a state to have an organized militia, in order to protect the states from being completely overrun by the Federal Government," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. In the early 1980s, when gun owners brought a court challenge to the handgun ban adopted in Morton Grove, Illinois, lower courts rejected its argument. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The ban stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Beyond the Brady Bill | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...history of business in Cambridge is to overrun the neighborhood," but Spartichino stressed that "a Kendall Square type atmosphere is not wanted here. We prefer quiet at night and non-existence on weekends...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: New Development Plan Unveiled for Alewife Area | 11/10/1993 | See Source »

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