Word: overtook
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...Near Indio, Calif., sheriff's deputies finally overtook a car they had chased across the desert, informed surprised Motorist F. H. Davison: "You left your wife and mother-in-law at the gas station 50 miles back...
Along the twisting horse-&-buggy roads through London's suburbs, sleek patrician Bentleys elbowed war-weary jalopies aside oh the way to the track. Charabancs full of cheering trippers from Clapham Common and Edgeware overtook lumbering six-horsed coaches complete with liveried postilions and grey-toppered gentry...
...half is a long grind; the starting pace was slow. Jockey Warren Mehrtens, up on Assault, had orders to hold him back until Lord Boswell made his move. Jockey Mehrtens dutifully obeyed for a mile, decided he could wait no longer, and set out for the leaders. Assault overtook them in the home stretch, finished three lengths ahead. His winning time (2:30 4/5) was nothing sensational, but the victory put the Texas-bred horse into racing's select seven that have won All Three.* It also made Assault the 13th biggest prizewinner in history, with $316,270. Lord...
...faced about to receive the rope, a Buddhist priest heard him voice a wish "for the Emperor's long life." Then justice, if justice it was, overtook the Tiger of Malaya...
...spur-of-the-moment style of diplomacy was neatly explained last week at Jimmy Byrnes's press conference. Asked if he expected Russian and British troops to withdraw from Iran as scheduled by March 2, Byrnes smiled brightly and said that he never anticipated trouble-it generally overtook...