Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well the real finality of the event. There have been no Davis Cup matches since Sir Norman Brookes took his Australians home to war in 1939. The sacred turf of England's Wimbledon has been torn by bombs and turned into a pasture. The general bleakness this week overtook the West Side Tennis Club's stadium, whose eleven flagpoles used to be none too many to fly the national emblems of its players...
Some 70 of his men got away that evening, picked up the colonel, seized several lorries and chugged away in the darkness. Twice the next day, on their dash along the desert road, they overtook German brigades. Each time they blew their horns, waved their arms wildly. The well-disciplined Germans moved briskly aside to let them through. Last week the sad-faced British colonel was behind his own lines again...
...northern Caribbean area, convinced startled British officials of Gough's complicity. But the slippery Gough was not easy to hook. He escaped. In the days of 17th-Century pirates he might well have outraced his pursuers to the nearby Republic of Honduras. But a Naval patrol plane overtook his boat, forced it to stop, and took over. It was believed the first time in history that an air crew became a prize crew. But it was not the last time, if Snoopers Hemingway and Jenkinson's 1940 warnings were to be reread, that the U.S. would discover...
...Crimson advanced a post in both departments. Although the squad dropped its collective batting average from 278 to 271 it still overtook Dartmouth and now holds second. In fielding, by playing faultless ball against Yale, it advanced from fifth to fourth place...
Three hours passed before a police car overtook the sedan and rammed it. Out of the sedan the police dragged the driver, middle-aged Philip Joseph War, a Royal Artillery gunner on leave. The score of his marksmanship: one man, two women dead; four women wounded...