Word: overwhelm
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Albania's pro-Communist President, hulking, baby-faced Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hodja) knew that this week's constitutional convention election was in the bag. His 82 candidates were certain to overwhelm the 20 venturesome men who had turned up in opposition. So he permitted free and secret balloting, under a system rude but effective. It functioned admirably...
...since marrying and settling down in Winter Haven, Fla. in 1931, her total literary income has been $6.50-for an article in a trade magazine on her favorite thesis of "If you can't write what you want, why write at all?" Her double bonanza did not overwhelm her. Said she: "You never know. I had a feeling this might be my year for making...
Coach Hal Ulen's men, accustomed in former years to overwhelm M. I. T., are under severe handicaps this year, with but four of last year's men gone and the pool available for practice only 25 minutes a day. Tech, on the other hand, still has a goodly number of veterans and can practice two hours...
...last week these spearheaded lines were channels through which Allied tides could now flow, flood and finally overwhelm Berlin and Tokyo...
...German fighter production falls, the process will snowball. What the R.A.F. and the Eighth need now are planes & more planes to overwhelm the German defenses. They have a schedule of what they want to do and what they need, and they are not far behind it. When their full strength is reached, they believe they can crush Germany. For Eaker of the Eighth and his R.A.F. colleagues, victory...