Word: overtook
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...cars turned off. Soon they overtook a lorry convoy, which had halted to remove some anti-tank blocks. The staff cars made their way to the convoy head to investigate...
Later he joined his father who had succeeded in establishing a travel agency in Warsaw. But disaster once again overtook the family when, in the Polish pogrom of August, 1937, an armed band of roughnecks broke into his father's office and injured the elder Spiegel...
Back where the cavalry waited, the right hand of an officer rose, swung forward. Horses and horsemen spurted from the brush. In the scout cars, above the pattering exhausts, the men heard the crying breath of horses on the run. Mounted riflemen, machine-gun squads, four horse-drawn howitzers overtook, enveloped, rushed past the cars at 20 m.p.h. The horsemen vanished ahead into a shallow arroyo, arched over the far side, rode on. The artillerymen pulled up, dismounted, within a few minutes had their horses hidden, their guns barking blanks...
Slowly but inexorably plantation rubber production climbed. It was only three years after the orgiastic peak of the Amazon Valley boom, in 1913, that plantation rubber production overtook wild. Always superior because of controlled quality, it pushed wild rubber from expanding markets till, in the peak year of 1934, out of a world production of 1,019,000 tons Brazil contributed but 9,000 tons, a catastrophic 0.89%. In Iquitos, Peru, upriver from Manaus, docks fell into disrepair. Manaus grew clean and hungry. The State of Amazonas defaulted both internal and external debt regularly each year...
Reporter Phillips overtook the column, cried to the last man: "Sergeant, that man is a German! He has no registration card." Said the sergeant: "You'll have to tell one of the officers." Phillips hurried on, caught up with a lieutenant. Said the lieutenant: "You follow him-we'll catch up with you after the parade." Finally, Phillips spoke to a policeman watching the parade. They jumped into a car and drove after the man. He clicked his heels as they overtook him, saluted, was pinched. He turned out to be Rons Kempe, another escaped Nazi, a veteran...