Word: overwhelm
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...great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. It took only one film-Getting Straight -for Bergman to decide on the American actor. "I fell for him immediately. He's fantastic." Gould has yet to meet his new director, but a phone conversation with the maestro was enough to overwhelm the easygoing actor: "I felt like I was talking to Abraham Lincoln...
...tensions of the task are trying, but they should not be allowed to overwhelm us, as they did to the handful of guys answerable for Saturday night's mistake. We should try to bear in mind that narrow-based groups can stage narrow-based actions and in their isolation incur unnecessary penalties that cut at their long-range effectiveness in bringing down this system, and they can do this without having ever added to their support or heightened others' awareness...
...costly investments in seeds, irrigation, fertilizers and insecticides, large landholders may force increasing numbers of small farmers and peasants off the land and into the already overcrowded cities. The prospect, says British Economist Barbara Ward, is of "a tidal wave, a Hurricane Camille of country people that threatens to overwhelm the already crowded, bursting cities." Agrees India's Home Minister Y.B. Chavan: "Unless we do something about the Green Revolution, it will become the red revolution...
...events-the 880 and the two-mile-are crucial to the Crimson's strategy today. If the Harvard distance men are unable to overwhelm the Princetonians, the meet could go down to the final two relays...
...committing suicide is stark tragedy. That another has reached the point where he is able to mourn death sounds a call of hope. Who has never heard an inner voice beckoning him to acts of madness? David Sawyer's film pierces the darkness that results when other voices overwhelm the rational mind...