Word: overtook
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...courier overtook General Nga Beu with the news that the Chinese army outside the town seemed to have vanished. Rallying his men, the general marched back to Chamdo. Meanwhile, Chinese soldiers with real guns had infiltrated the town. They captured the general...
...freshman football team overtook the Yale freshmen once yesterday, but bad breaks and a good Eli eleven proved too much for the Yardlings, and they finally lost, 15 to 6, in the mud and cold of Soldiers Field...
...Constitutional Importance." But the whirlwind was already sown and the State Department never overtook it. U.S. News & World Report, which, relying on the release date, had gone to press with it last week, appeared on the stands with the full text even as Washington reporters hurried to the White House to inquire, in effect, what in hell was going...
...glass walls of a snake's cage") of no determinable age, with a face that was once beautiful. She is very sociable indeed ("She meets one continually and she's at things. She calls"), but not very good company. ("It was said that they whom she overtook were found drained and strangled in the morning, and a single hair tight about the neck, so faint, so sure, so deathly...
Joseph Mindszenty has lived for three years with the threat of martyrdom hanging over him. He knew it and talked about it, and said he was ready to accept it. He even prepared for the form of martyrdom that overtook him last week, the martyrdom devised by King Unericus-the martyrdom of the tongue that could no longer clearly profess that to which he had dedicated his life...