Word: overwhelmer
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Most of the conflict in his play ends up verbal, and the dialogue tends to overwhelm what little action there is. Yet enough of the individual lines and characters, and of the overall conception, works that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost almost does...
...talked); he also recommends "pretense of physical evidence," such as a faked lie-detector test or fake lab reports that play on the gullible suspect's "mystical notions of the power of scientific crime detection." Above all, says O'Hara, the interrogator "must dominate his subject and overwhelm him with his inexorable will to obtain the truth...
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...