Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albania's pro-Communist President, hulking, baby-faced Enver Hoxha (pronounced Hodja) knew that this week's constitutional convention election was in the bag. His 82 candidates were certain to overwhelm the 20 venturesome men who had turned up in opposition. So he permitted free and secret balloting, under a system rude but effective. It functioned admirably...
...seemed as if, like a swarm of bees inadvertently wakened, the blessings of the Old Testament were actually rushing after me. From the hot, remote, passionate past of Hebrew history, out of the Oriental climate and unctuous lives of that infuriate people, gross good things were, coming to overwhelm me with Benedictions for which I had not bargained. Great oxen and camels and concubines were panting close behind me, he-goats and she-goats and rams of the breed of Bashan. My barns should burst their doors with plenty, and all my paths drop fatness. My face should be smeared...
...since marrying and settling down in Winter Haven, Fla. in 1931, her total literary income has been $6.50-for an article in a trade magazine on her favorite thesis of "If you can't write what you want, why write at all?" Her double bonanza did not overwhelm her. Said she: "You never know. I had a feeling this might be my year for making...
Coach Hal Ulen's men, accustomed in former years to overwhelm M. I. T., are under severe handicaps this year, with but four of last year's men gone and the pool available for practice only 25 minutes a day. Tech, on the other hand, still has a goodly number of veterans and can practice two hours...
...last week these spearheaded lines were channels through which Allied tides could now flow, flood and finally overwhelm Berlin and Tokyo...