Word: overwhelmer
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Every year the World Series comes as a surprise. In Drabowsky's year the Koufax-Drysdale Dodgers were supposed to sweep the Baltimore Orioles, but they got swept instead, with Moe striking out six in a row. This year first the Cardinals were expected to overwhelm the Twins, then the Twins were poised to obliterate the Cardinals. The reverse happened in turn. A grand-slam homer from a lead-off hitter like Minnesota's Gladden qualifies as a marvel, but the home run later hit by Lawless was a miracle...
...SPAN tape was the final blow in a barrage of stories that threatened not just to overwhelm Biden's presidential campaign but to endanger his prospects for re-election to the Senate in 1990. Two days of conferences reached the inevitable conclusion. Biden would have to go through what is becoming a new ritual of presidential politics: the press conference at which a candidate reluctantly pulls out of the race before a single primary vote has been cast...
...that won critical praise for her early works and then popular, best-selling acclaim for A Mother and Two Daughters (1982) and The Finishing School (1985). Her meticulously controlled fiction creates the illusion of life unpredictably unfolding and of characters trying to make moral sense out of experiences that overwhelm thought...
...between the two Germanys. Some worry that West Germany, in its eagerness to accommodate Honecker, will gradually loosen its ties to the Atlantic Alliance and the European Community. A few West Europeans have even raised the specter of German reunification, fearing the creation of a nation that would economically overwhelm the rest of Europe. But the principal objection is that a unified Germany would be neutral. This would hopelessly weaken NATO and, in effect, allow the Soviets to dominate the Continent without ever making a military move...
...three invitations, but he was tempted to say, "Look, send one around, get your pictures and then leave me alone." After that Kissinger carried a "blabber tape" with him whenever he headed for the Kremlin. The trouble with the tape, which was a jumble of incomprehensible words designed to overwhelm bugging devices, was that when turned up to the required volume, the blabber nearly drove the people in the room out of their skulls...