Word: overruns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meds fly off to different corners of the country for medical school interviews, giving their roommates a brief respite from their anal ways. Recruiting types in jacket and tie overrun introductory meetings like desperate lemmings, stuffing their faces with finger food while making pathetic attempts to schmooze employers. Aspiring lawyers sit in front of their computers, struggling to infuse their law school personal statements with wisdom and eloquence...
...policy] does not apply to the Yard because common areas are so precious and easily overrun by students looking for convenient, central meeting areas," Lewis said...
...Dutch should know by now that we cannot pull our finger out of the fragile dike holding back the floods of fascism. They were neutral toward Hitler in the 1930s and said World War II wasn't their war either. That is, until they were overrun by the blitzkrieg and had to be saved by American and British forces. We must never forget...
...when it comes down to the tactics of the game, Harvard, instead of focusing on shutting down Yale, is "out to play their own game" with the hope that "their style will overrun Yale," as Stauffer puts...
...groundwork for last week's raids had been laid two months earlier, when the U.N. "safe havens" of Srebrenica and Zepa were overrun by the Bosnian Serbs. The inability of nato and the U.N. to prevent the fall of either town, despite their pledges to protect it, galvanized the allies' resolve to ensure that nothing like that would happen again. "The fall of Srebrenica was a blow to the credibility of the West, and we are the leader of the West," said a senior State Department official. "If we didn't respond with U.S. leadership, the situation was going...