Word: overwhelms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chasey and John Short combined to overwhelm the Crimson last Saturday, and Dartmouth's 37 points kept the Indians as the highest scoring team in the country with a 38-point average...
...assertive in its own right. With good reason. The agricultural college, long treated as a stepchild by Cornell, needed to get back into view. While marking the ag college with the tower, however, Franzen respectfully designed and sited the $6,500,000 structure to defer to, rather than overwhelm its neighbors. "It is," he says, "like someone who says, 'After you,' in an elevator...
Envy of His Fellows. In his heyday, 1952 to 1964, Fleisher had a mastery of the classic and romantic repertory that made him the envy of fellow pianists. No pianist can overwhelm an audience at every performance, but more nights than not, a rare spark seemed to pass between Fleisher and his listeners. It was not the kind of spark that stemmed from mere dramatics or showmanship. What he had was the kind of flame that was ignited by rubbing the smallest phrase just so, and then building from there. "It was like making a happening," he recalls. "When...
...great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. It took only one film-Getting Straight -for Bergman to decide on the American actor. "I fell for him immediately. He's fantastic." Gould has yet to meet his new director, but a phone conversation with the maestro was enough to overwhelm the easygoing actor: "I felt like I was talking to Abraham Lincoln...
...tensions of the task are trying, but they should not be allowed to overwhelm us, as they did to the handful of guys answerable for Saturday night's mistake. We should try to bear in mind that narrow-based groups can stage narrow-based actions and in their isolation incur unnecessary penalties that cut at their long-range effectiveness in bringing down this system, and they can do this without having ever added to their support or heightened others' awareness...