Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Second Half. Midway it may have been, in one sense, but it was less than midway in point of time or distance. The real march to Tokyo could not begin from Midway: it had to start from Guadalcanal, and disaster nearly overtook it. Nimitz hated to relieve Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, who had burned himself out in the South Pacific, allowing himself neither exercise nor relaxation, trying to run an offensive on a shoestring (and four months ahead of schedule). But at last Nimitz sent Halsey south to take over...
...Martin and Morris from being sent overseas by having them temporarily transferred to his own unit. In January, Radovich himself went overseas (though he had to persuade his commanding officer to overlook a minor leg injury) and played a hero's role in the CBI until his conscience overtook...
Justice of another kind quickly overtook the Vichy regime. Switzerland withdrew recognition of the Vichy Government, prepared to recognize the Government of General Charles de Gaulle. The Vatican ceased to recognize Vichy. Sweden and Turkey bowed out. Spain and Portugal raced for the privilege of dropping the hot cake, ended in a dead heat of disclaimers against Vichy's further right to diplomatic recognition...
...August 4 he overtook Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, who served 35 years, from...
...Marshal's commanders." The woman tucked a piece of bread into the hands of her last son, made the sign of the cross above his head, and vanished. Up and down we marched, first through the woods and then through a lunar panorama, of fierce broken crags. We overtook a Partisan soldier, shot through the chest, gasping and struggling toward the nearest wood hospital...