Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appleby and Davis beat Heckscher and Coonley in the first doubles, 6-2, 6-4. The Crimson pair dominated the match at the net, often returning slams on the volley, to overwhelm the Quaker duo. Todd Wilkinson and Jose Gonzalex beat George and Levin in the second doubles, 12-10. And Dinny Adams and Dan Kleinman stopped Serues and Elliot Abrams in the third match...
...Viet Cong? More temperate criticism came from some 400 churchmen-delegates to a National Inter-religious Conference on Peace in Washington, who approved overwhelm ingly a resolution asking the President to consider 1) "an immediate halt" to the bombing in both North and South Viet Nam, 2) a new cease-fire beginning on Good Friday (April 8) and 3) an agreement to give the Viet Cong "direct representation" in any peace talks...
...search and destroy" tactic is not an alternative to "securing territory which is already held," as the editorial states. It is a necessary corollary to it. For territory can only be secure so long as the guerillas are aggressively presented from consolidating forces that are large enough to overwhelm areas "already held...
...Eskimo village, once made a 35-day trek from Point Hope to Point Barrow by dog sled; he flies 50,000 miles a year, much of it in bad weather and to isolated areas. "Most people," he says, "wait on their islands of insecurity for the world to overwhelm them. In most of the U.S., no one has to take risks. Up here, you feel challenged. When I fly in bad weather or when I rough it, I feel that I have beaten something that was my adversary...
Movement casued by the earth's rotation is so slight that even the smallest countermovement can overwhelm it: in the ordinary bathtub, water will swirl out either way-usually in the same direction it was swirled in. Even if allowed to sit enough to stop the force of its inward swirl, the water's natural rotational movement will often be overcome by air currents, uneven heating, surface tension or irregularities in the shape of its container...