Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game certainly belie its claim to rationality. Cricket probably began sometime around the thirteenth century, but no one is sure, give or take a century or two. Tracing the origins of the game is a popular indoor sport in some circles, and there are books which will attempt to overwhelm you with a battery of Old English words and historical anecdotes of dubious authenticity. But all that is really known in that the game is unspeakably old and unspeakably traditional...
...these discussions lately, the United States has taken the lead in favor of an integrated German armed force, under a unified command only on the higher levels. It has generally had the support of a majority of delegates on the point, but that has not been enough to overwhelm the French objections...
After being held scoreless for the first period, a strong and aggressive Dartmouth jayvee eleven took complete control of the game held yesterday at Soldiers Field scoring six touchdowns in the remaining three periods to overwhelm the Harvard aggregation...
...Nieman Fellows softball team came up with eight runs in the fifth inning yesterday to overwhelm the Harvard College Society of Fellows, 11 to 9, in an abbreviated seven-inning contest on Soldiers Field. Giant hurler Clark Mellenhoff paced the Nieman attack with a double and a single in three trips to the plate and then relieved starter Bill German in the final three innings...