Word: overtook
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...holding suspects until the police arrived. In one instance, nearly 100 outraged citizens surrounded the taxicab in which three muggers were trying to escape, pressing in so close that the assailants locked themselves in for fear of their lives. In another, three men chased two muggers down back streets, overtook them and wrestled them into submission. In the most dramatic-and questionable-"citizen's arrest," a dozen men pummeled into unconsciousness a man suspected of and later charged with molesting a nine-year-old girl...
...deep rough, and fairways as narrow as a bowling alley, lays low such high intentions. But Johnny played exceptionally well, putting like a pool shark and hitting his lofty drives as straight as the stretch of Pennsylvania Turnpike that bisects the course. Starting six strokes off the pace, Johnny overtook a dozen of the world's top golfers with one of the most spectacular come-from-nowhere charges in the annals of golf. Scoring an incredible nine birdies in the first 15 holes, he won a one-stroke victory with a 63, the lowest single round ever recorded...
...Cardinals won pennants in 1928, 1930 and 1931, and Frisch again figured prominently in the triumphs. Then, as a playing manager, he oversaw the antics of the rambunctious Cardinal Gas House Gang. Frisch continued to play until 1937. In one game that year, Fellow Cardinal Terry Moore nearly overtook him as both men sprinted around the bases. "When they start to climb up the back of the old Flash," he said, "I know it's time to quit...
Behaving more like a fearless cowhand than a member of royalty, Princess Anne, 22, did not hesitate when a fellow huntsman tumbled off his horse. "Leave the horse to me!" she shouted, then overtook the runaway on her own bay gelding, swung low in the saddle and grabbed the horse's reins to bring it to a halt. Later in the Cheshire Hunt, another rider fell: "The princess jumped over me and went straight after the horse," the fallen rider recalled. "She did very well to catch him. Afterward she said to me, 'You were very lucky...
...element in the conflict that separates black American from white, the dissenters from the accepting. For a time, depending upon the point of view, Newton was either a radical martyr or a symbol of the winds of destruction. In the end, he was both and he was neither; symbolism overtook reality. In the passions on both sides, there were but few who remembered the death of one man, or the four years of anguish and uncertainty suffered by another man charged with that death...