Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Letting a casualty know that you want to understand how he feels can be the first step toward helping him. This may be done with a few words or even a simple gesture. Do not overwhelm him with pity...
When the crowd applauded, he peered over the electric candelabra standing on the piano (an idea adapted from a movie about Chopin) and cooed: "You overwhelm me! I got goose pimples." The feeling was clearly mutual...
...with all this spirit and opportunity to get together, the Bunnies remain a diverse group. Athletes, scholars, and premeds are all Leverett inhabitants. The Hutch is supposed to house a high enough percentage of club members to rival, if not overwhelm, Eliot. At the same time it allegedly contains the highest ratio of scholarship students...
Each weekday, from early morning until sunset, television turns loose an avalanche of masculine charm that would overwhelm any audience less hardy than U.S. housewives. TV's charm boys range from such veteran network stars as Arthur Godfrey to such local Lotharios as The Continental, who lounges about in a silken robe, sipping champagne at midday, breathing love poems and casting hot-eyed glances calculated to burn right through TV screens...
Local bettors presage a Lion victory on two counts; they feel the big, veteran Columbia line will be able to stop the Crimson backfield, and they feel the Dick Carr-Dale Hopp passing combination--perhaps the best in the Ivy group--will overwhelm the Crimson secondary. But the New York betting is not confident, and several papers have rated the game a toss...