Word: overwhelmingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complete with guttural Asiatic incantations, to support his twelve best stories. The basic notion was that countless eons ago, Earth had been taken over by an extraterrestrial race which, in the practice of black magic, had lost its hegemony, but lay dormant and dreaming, awaiting a second chance to overwhelm the planet...
...Gaddafi and essential to his dreams of leadership. The linking is a calculated risk for him. Unless his notoriously dour and apathetic people can be mobilized and motivated, contends a Moslem writer who is a longtime Gaddafi watcher, "Egyptian bureaucrats will move in like a plague of locusts and overwhelm Libya. That is why he launched the People's Revolution. It is essentially a defensive operation aimed at helping Libyans hold their own with Egyptians after the union...
Thieu's new confidence is not baseless. If the Paris agreement has not ended the fighting, it has also not led to the political upheavals that many observers in both Washington and Saigon feared might soon overwhelm Thieu. Saigon's 1,100,000-man military machine, the basis of Thieu's strength, has not collapsed; indeed, ARVN desertions have declined since the ceasefire. Thieu is also cheered by the unexpected ease with which his forces have retaken almost all of the 400 villages that were seized by the Communists in the confusion following the Jan. 23 initialing...
Across America, crises over money, schoolroom violence and forced busing threaten to overwhelm the cities' public schools. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the school districts are reeling under deficits totaling tens of millions of dollars. In New York and Los Angeles assaults on teachers and students were at an alltime high. In Washington and Richmond, so many white families have fled to the suburbs that the city schools are being left, de facto, segregated...
...last four section of Part I were striking: the chorale and recitative beautifully mixed sole and chorus passengers. The air for baritone with trumpet obbligato was played with sensitivity to text and expression. The solo trumpet did not overwhelm the singer and played with clean attacks, soft trills, and smooth phrasing in the upward-receiving suspensions...