Word: overtook
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...northern Caribbean area, convinced startled British officials of Gough's complicity. But the slippery Gough was not easy to hook. He escaped. In the days of 17th-Century pirates he might well have outraced his pursuers to the nearby Republic of Honduras. But a Naval patrol plane overtook his boat, forced it to stop, and took over. It was believed the first time in history that an air crew became a prize crew. But it was not the last time, if Snoopers Hemingway and Jenkinson's 1940 warnings were to be reread, that the U.S. would discover...
...Crimson advanced a post in both departments. Although the squad dropped its collective batting average from 278 to 271 it still overtook Dartmouth and now holds second. In fielding, by playing faultless ball against Yale, it advanced from fifth to fourth place...
Three hours passed before a police car overtook the sedan and rammed it. Out of the sedan the police dragged the driver, middle-aged Philip Joseph War, a Royal Artillery gunner on leave. The score of his marksmanship: one man, two women dead; four women wounded...
...Some American destroyers, who were carrying mails to the United States Marines in Iceland, happened to be going the same way, too, so we made a goodly company at sea together; and when we were right out in mid-passage one afternoon a noble sight broke in view. We overtook one of the convoys which carry munitions and supplies of the New World to sustain the champions of freedom...
...victory in the mile relay was easily the day's thriller. Larry Corbett kept neck-and-neck with his opponent Riley, and in the second lap Ted Graves loped ahead by a large margin. McCarthy overtook Harvard's Lyons, and Dowd widened the lead over Crimson anchor man Tom Watkins...