Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sirius Mystery argues with some sophistication the likelihood that superior beings from Sirius visited earth between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago. Both books are squarely in a modern fiction-science mode that had its recent renaissance during the early '50s when the country was overtaken by mass UFOria...
Midyear is a time of economic pulse taking, often followed by a revision of forecasts for the year that have been overtaken by events. But this week, as the first six months end, there is no need for any drastic changes. Even though some of the latest indicators show a diminishing velocity, the outlook remains basically the same: the nation's economic revival will continue at a healthy pace, not only for the rest of this year but through 1977 as well...
...ones between my sophomore year and my senior year. We were really lucky, we got booked in a place in Minneapolis. Our stuff was good, but our performing was so terrible." By that time Davis had quit the University of the Pacific, and Franken's show business dreams had overtaken his physics plans...
...technological revolution has finally overtaken cross country skiing, a sport in which birchwood and hickory skis, long socks and knickers were once trademarks. The skis are fiber glass now, and racers are zipped into one-piece racing suits. Still, success probably lies in guessing correctly the two kinds of wax applied separately to tips and tails and under the racer's boot. Maintaining a steady "working pulse on the trail" is also important...
...numbers and statistics of economists and engineers and the jargon of sociologists and bureaucrats add up to a stultifying litany. Boyce Richardson, a New Zealand journalist, skillfully blends both sides in his documentary about the cri sis of a culture. The cumulative effect of his book is like being overtaken by a glacier. Even when describing the rich life in a Cree hunting camp, where he produced an award-winning film, Richardson cannot really mask his sense of fatalism. He accepts the fact that the Indians must give ground. The dominant culture naturally asserts its necessities, even though they...