Word: overtook
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...Wiley--displaying the fierce tenacity and aggressiveness that have characterized her running all season--overtook Seeger on the last uphill and then poured it on in the last 500 yards to edge Seeger by 4.5 seconds...
...even if these things were to happen, how long would it be before individual fears overtook the collective, and still another agreement were broken? To avoid that, there would have to be a third way taken simultaneously, one that addressed the mind that brought us to the place we are. It is time to see the bomb as a real weapon again, and not an amorphous threat or a political lever. It is time to look straight at its drab snout and recall quite clearly what it once did and still can do. A new book of drawings by Hiroshima...
Confusion momentarily overtook the leaders of the march, however, at the corner of Boylston and South Sts., where some members of the rally tried to divert the marchers to the Kennedy School of Government--contrary to the scheduled route--to protest the appearance of Roy Prosterman, a government land reform expert who has advised the Salvadoran junta on its land redistribution program...
...Kresge Co., a stagnant chain of central-city dime stores. Convinced that Kresge's inner-city stores held little promise, Cunningham persuaded the company's board to invest $80 million in some 60 suburban K mart outlets. In four years, K mart's sales overtook those of Kresge stores, and in 1977 Kresge was renamed in honor of its successful spinoff...
...Poland finally finished on top after coming in fourth at Munich, second at Montreal. Filbert Bayi, 27, a Tanzanian miler running only the sixth steeplechase of his career, appeared to have the race in hand, leading by as much as 50 meters. But Malinowski mounted a stirring comeback and overtook Bayi with about 150 meters remaining. His time was 8:09.7, the fastest in the world this year and only 4.3 sec. behind Kenyan Henry Rono's alltime best. "I have been waiting for this gold medal for 13 years," declared Malinowski. "Now my only goal is to establish...