Word: overtook
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...nigsberg one of his weepy moods overtook Orator Hitler. "Do you think this struggle has been easy for me?" he pathetically asked the throng. "It is consuming my nerves and my strength. I am not growing any younger. I realize that things which I once could do easily are painfully hard for me today...
...Gradually Ruki's lot improved: he became a dependable worker, was finally allotted a woman. She made him save his money until there was enough in their old age to let them return home with honor. Night before they were to start Ruki's old bad habits overtook him, and he gambled it all away. Once more he signed the contract, but by now he hardly cared...
...tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory...
...Bishop of Cleveland says that melody comes best to him when he is tired. He believes there should be more congregational singing at mass, has a good voice himself which he employed in the numerous radio-broadcasts he made publicizing the Congress. Perhaps the most satisfying feeling that overtook Bishop Schrembs this week was when vast throngs of people burst out with such of his hymns as God Bless Our Pope...
Three-quarters of a century ago in Portland. Maine, a fierce form of religious fervor overtook a hardshelled Yankee named Andrew J. Johnson. Seeking out his young brother-in-law, Johnson accused him of writing songs in league with the Devil and, thrusting out his self-righteous chest, shouted: "I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung...