Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wangling commissions, Cohn was naturally assigned to a group studying Selective Service. But when the nation's Selective Service director, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, showed up and was asked to pose for a picture with Lieut. Cohn, the general, possibly recalling the sad consequences which overtook Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens after he obligingly posed with Army Private G. David Schine, retorted with a stiff, military "Hell, no!" Swinging down into the U.S. after a three-week royal tour of Canada, Britain's handsome Duchess of Kent and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, 17, set Manhattan hostesses...
Between the afternoon time trials and the evening final, however, the Crimson sophomore practiced the unfamiliar new kick and decided to use it in the race that night. He did, and overtook Baarcke in the last 25 yards to win in 58.8 seconds, his fastest time to date...
...Crimson came out victorious in the K. of C. meet, Jan. 16, as it sprinted home in the near record time of 3:21.6. Dave Alpers' anchor leg, in which he overtook Princeton's Dick Yaffa, has caused quite a stir among local fans, and Coach Bill McCurdy in particular. Alpers was timed by McCurdy at :49.6, but the officials credited him with a :48.9, excellent time for an indoor...
...spinnaker to catch the wind for the second mark, then reached for home. All the way, he shrewdly covered Charlie Ill's boat (i.e., protected his edge in points by duplicating Ill's maneuvers, tack for tack). A scant 100 yards from the finish, Gene overtook the lead boat of the Maine Yacht Racing Association's James Ducey, who had lost time on an ill-advised tack, and sluiced in first. With 48½ points over Ill's 45-4, Gene Walet was the year's top skipper. Glowed Gene: "I gave this race...
...housecleaning was symbolic of a clean sweep that overtook Germany's whole political household in the huge (86% of all eligible voters) turnout of last week's general election. With one sweep of the electoral broom, some 28 million German voters had pushed aside all the troublesome, totalitarian splinter groups (including Communists and Neo-Nazis) that clutter most European politics, giving Germany alone of Europe's nations a workable two-party Parliament in the pattern of Britain...