Word: overwhelmer
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...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...
...limited wars that the U.S. is now fighting, and doubtless will continue to fight for the next half-century or more, have a moral purpose too. In South Viet Nam, this purpose is to preserve freedom of choice for that country and others near it that the Communists might overwhelm...
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...
Harvard's track team did more than merely overwhelm five Greater Boston teams this weekend. They unveiled several new stars to support the old cast while scoring a record 93 points to 45 for runnerup Northeastern in the Sixth annual Greater Boston College Track and Field Meet...
Director Michael Murray achieves the difficult and peculiar French balance between comedy and intellectuality. His direction prevents side-spiting distractions from Giruadoux's pointed satire, and, partly through effective cutting of several long speeches, maintains lightness of faint. He touches, but doesn't overwhelm, the last act with shades of the pathetic and the ridiculous. The resuits are sublime...