Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drop opened frightening prospects. As Blumenthal stated on TV last week, an endless fall in the dollar's value would destroy any chance that Stage II could succeed; the rise in import prices would overwhelm the most valiant struggles that companies and unions
...pretty silly stuff, but the chief peculiarity of this film, based on Ira Levin's bestseller, is the expensive sobriety with which it has been mounted. Director Schaffner seems determined to overwhelm our disbelief with production values-a strategy that frequently threatens to succeed. To begin with, there is the fascination of watching Gregory Peck, Mr. Integrity himself, playing Mengele. He sports a nasty little mustache and a stiff posture, and seems to be enjoying his change of face and pace. But no more than Laurence Olivier, no less, relishes playing the old Jew. Wise and crusty, frail...
...almost irresistibly attractive," Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-Texas), vice-chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, said yesterday. "But it would obviously overwhelm our supply capacity and lead to roaring inflation, increase consumer prices and run up interest rates...
...this page and about nine others. And while there is no common source of all these tragedies, they all exemplify the daily tragedy that has become America. It is a system beyond anyone's control, slowly consuming itself like a cooling star. It will continue, of course--nothing can overwhelm the combined forces of inertia and entrenchment, at least not now--and improvement seems hardly likely...
...Hamilton was given to nervous collapses, irrational eruptions and an anxious preoccupation with personal glory. It seemed somehow right that such a touchy man should die in a duel. Fortunately, Flexner never permits his psychological theories, which seem sound enough if not pursued to preposterous lengths, to overwhelm this rich and very solid biography, ending with Hamilton's 26th year, two decades before his death...