Word: overwhelmer
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There have been periods in these last two decades when the pursuit of personal gratification by Presidents seemed to overwhelm their sense of mission. Dwight Eisenhower sought out the best links in the nation for himself and his golfing cronies on occasions when he should have been at his desk handling national problems. John Kennedy's social evenings were a lot more successful than some of his dealings with Congress. People still roar with laughter recalling that Lyndon Johnson, when told by a Marine that he was headed toward the wrong Government helicopter, looked down and said, "Son, they...
...Harvard team then proceeded to the final round where they faced the number-two-seeded team of Ratliff and Swift from Virginia. After taking a tense first set, 7-6, Lindner and Ingard went on to overwhelm the Virginians in the second set, 6-3, to win the championship...
...other thing that Singer's characters find overwhelming, besides the impossibility of being sure of deeper meanings, is the one truth they can be sure of, the "dust, dust, dust" of change. Change can almost overwhelm even, those who accept the prophets' castigating words, who accept responsibility for their actions and say, however reluctantly, that that's meaning enough. There's Zeinvel Gardiner, an intellectual who's survived 20 years of turmoil in Poland including stays in fascist and Stalinist prison camps, who turns up in Paris with a new wife, determined to start a little magazine to tell people...
...gospel of liberation, but the rich hymn singing and some of the rolling language from the pulpit recall old-fashioned black Baptist devotion: "Thank you Lord, for all of your goodnesses." Indeed, the series is so full of regional and ethnic accents and special religious language that it would overwhelm a foreigner who is just learning American English...
Harvard's freshman basketball team continued to overwhelm its opposition as it soundly defeated the Boston College J.V.s. 84-59, last night...