Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something for Christmas. Half of Bergdolt's exports go to the U.S., where Löwenbräu is the largest seller among 80 imported beers (having overtaken Heineken in 1963), though the imports together represent less than 1% of all U.S. beer sales. Surveys show that the U.S. Löwenbräu drinker is mainly a city executive earning more than $10,000. "We won't change the Scotch drinker," says Importer Dieter Holterbosch, "but we want him to choose Löwenbräu when he has a beer." As one way to persuade...
...head. They knocked me down and started beating me on the floor." Jackson attacked the men who were beating his mother, and one of the troopers fired a revolver into his stomach. The wounded man fled from the cafe, ran half a block, and was overtaken and beaten in front of the post office. He died in a Selma hospital...
Though less celebrated than the economic miracle, or Wirtschaftswunder, another happy postwar transformation has overtaken West Germany. It might be called the Fräuleinwunder. In place of the pigtailed, fat-at-elbow female who used to be the popular image of Teutonic womanhood, a new generation of luscious, leggy girls has grown up for the delight of girl watchers everywhere -not to mention the tens of thousands of G.I.s who have married Müdchen...
Clearly, though, Russia is no longer the passive pastoral society that quivered before Stalin. The Kremlin will increasingly feel the pressures of an urban culture that is no longer resigned to an indefinitely receding Utopia. Communism's Kafka-and-abacus stage is already being overtaken by its Pasternak-and-hi-fi era. Affluent Communists might not be any easier to live with. But they would certainly have more to live...
...have overtaken you in cement") and results in many an official claim that is outrageously exaggerated...