Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malthusianism. The world is already overpopulated, the argument goes. Some areas, like the U.S., are luckier than others, but even the U.S. will soon run out of food. Therefore it should not help foreigners. Let them starve now, before they increase their numbers (with our help) and overwhelm...
...people made the biggest political news last week. They would rather have Ike Eisenhower for President than anyone else. A Roper poll showed that General Eisenhower, if he were the Republican candidate, would overwhelm Harry Truman; that if he were the Democratic candidate he would soundly beat any of the leading candidates (only Harold Stassen would give him a close race...
...Instead of making one $3,000,000 musical, there would now be two for $1,500,000 apiece. As MGM's Louis B. Mayer put it: "You can't overwhelm audiences with mobs and spectacles any more. Intimate pictures are the thing." Furthermore, M-G-M could no longer afford mobs and spectacles. Nor could anyone else, unless the mob included one of the few top stars (Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman and Betty Grable) whose appearance usually guaranteed a profit. Nor did Hollywood think it could film any plots or take up problems that cut deep into contemporary...
...looking on Columbia's wrestling team took six out of eight bouts to hand the Crimson grapplers a decisive 22 to 6 setback, their second straight, in the Lion's Auxiliary Gym yesterday afternoon. The boys in Blue took pins in the 128-pound and 175-pound classes to overwhelm the Varsity in a match which, according to pre-game dope, was liable to go either...
...falls a large shadow--one of the many that Hope shies away from throughout. Most of the fun derives from his attempts to extricate himself from tight spots with cracks like, "I gotta go now--just remembered I left my horse outside double-parked." In addition, Paramount manages to overwhelm Hope with Joan Caulfield, Marjorie Reynolds, a Mme. Pompadour whose personality is on view only briefly, and a Hollywood-version Spanish Court filled with blondes...