Word: overtook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Campus unrest and violence overtook the Cambodian operation itself as the major issue before the public. Washington took on the character of a besieged city. On May 9 a crowd estimated at between 75,000 and 100,000 demonstrated on the Ellipse, south of the White House. The President saw himself as the firm rock in this rushing stream, but the turmoil had its effect. Pretending indifference, he was deeply wounded by the hatred of the protesters. In his ambivalence Nixon reached a point of exhaustion that caused his advisers deep concern...
When spring is near the urge to swing a golf club becomes a terrible and irrepressible force, and it was this irrepressible force that overtook Fitzgibbons yesterday afternoon. The sentiments of Fitzgibbons as he prepared to take the first swing of spring were echoed by Bernard Darwin when he wrote of his own first shot one spring long ago: "I was assured that I should be able to do it another day, but I did not want to do it another day; I may never want to do it on any other day, but I did so dreadfully want...
...joyous mood that overtook Iran after the Shah fled the country was all but over. Last week Iran faced new violence, new tests of wills, new forebodings about an uncertain future that might involve chaos, coups, civil war. Without much visible success, the government of the Shah's appointee, Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, struggled for both popularity and credibility. Led by generals fiercely loyal to the Shah, the army stayed on the alert, clashing sporadically with opponents of the monarch. At week's end, Bakhtiar made a dramatic bid to break the impasse. He offered to meet early...
...booting grounders like soccer players. The tragedy had been unfolding for weeks, painfully, inexorably, the most fascinating horror story of the major leagues this year. The Red Sox had a 14-game lead over the Yankees just two months ago; and not since the Boston Braves of 1914 overtook the New York Giants had such a lead so late in the season been blown. The Red Sox had led the division from late May until last week; but as Yankee Star Reggie Jackson said, "It's where you are when the leaves turn brown, not when they are green...
...available to the camera, if all photography can make of big events is a scribble of light that promises more information than it delivers, what can photography do? What are its proper subjects? The argument of Szarkowski's show is that photography has undergone changes similar to those that overtook painting and sculpture. "The general movement of American photography," Szarcowski writes, "has been from public to private concerns." Photography has become more and more aware of its own history and limits as a medium: a debate about these is built into the art, so that photography, instead of being...