Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things we believe ... In Africa the imperative need is to create some kind of common society for white and black . . . Color bars imposed by the whites have produced only misery for white and black alike . . . Take a step toward the future; don't wait for it to overwhelm and crush...
There is no conscious effort to overwhelm the bull with pain. In a good bullfight, the bull must be tired but still dangerous right up to the kill...
Kandinsky's abstractions never fell into showoff coldness. There was passion enough in his pictures to overwhelm even so anti-abstract a social-realist painter as Mexico's Diego Rivera. "I know of nothing more real than the painting of Kandinsky," Rivera once wrote, "not anything more true and nothing more beautiful. A painting of Kandinsky gives no image of earthly life-it is life itself...
Boston University's starting sextet scored eight of its team's nine goals to overwhelm Cooney Weiland's varsity hockey team, 9 to 5, in the opening game of the 1951-52 season. A Boston Arena crowd of 2,000 saw the Terriers take advantage of the Crimson's obvious inexperience, as they piled up a lead of 4 to 0 in the first period, and extended it to 9 to 3 in the second...
...case. We do not think war is inevitable." He was willing to consider the difficult question of co-existing with Communism, but under conditions that would render world Communism powerless to threaten the security of the free world. "So long as one country has the power and forces to overwhelm others, and so long as that country has aggressive intentions, real peace is unattainable ... As our strength increases, we should be able to negotiate settlements that the Soviet Union will respect and live...