Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Production lags and announcement of raw material and steel shortages in the U.S. (see p. 13). These meant, said Goebbels, that the U.S. could never overwhelm the Axis with the weight of industrial power...
...promptly announced that because of an old agreement this meant Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career...
...does the English-speaking part of the British Empire. The same is true of Germany either with or without outlying German-speaking populations such as Austria. On the other hand, in these days of rapid communication, efficient transportation, active trade and increasing power of large mechanized nations to overwhelm small non-mechanized ones in both war and trade, small independent economic units are an anachronism. Practically all small units of this kind would benefit both economically and politically if united into large units while at the same time preserving their own internal autonomy...
...recording is made of each test and played back to the student so that he can hear, himself, what others have had to put up with for years and understand why he has perhaps failed to win friends and overwhelm employers...
Instead they heard criticism which was generally vague, sometimes piddling. It was the kind of criticism which the Prime Minister could, and did, overwhelm with one of his resonant emotional appeals. Sometimes he was almost as gay as the blue-flowered hat worn by Mrs. Churchill in the gallery. There was constant laughter and tittering at the Prime Minister's sal lies. When it was all over, the House of Commons approved his policy by a vote of 447-to-3 (the House of Lords had given him a unanimous vote of confidence), and in quitting the chamber...