Word: overran
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...contest winners will gain niches in British folklore, but few will rate the special affection that went to diffident Alec Rose, as he quietly accepted the tributes of 200,000 horn-honking fans who overran Portsmouth, his home town, to greet him. Unlike Chichester, Rose had no commercial sponsor. From the moment, five years ago, when he hauled the dilapidated Lively Lady off a mudbank and started to fit her out for the rough 50-week sail, determination counted far more heavily than cash in his achievement. "It makes you feel rather humble," said Alec, "that everybody wants to congratulate...
...course of their sometimes-fanatical crusade against marijuana, American lawmen have made the hippie-policemen a standard fixture in many college communities. And in New York last month, this new look in law enforcement moved into politics as hundreds of long haired, shabbily-dressed young policemen overran Columbia in the name of law and order...
...Shau valley in the north to the environs of Saigon, allied units are aggressively trying to break up Communist formations before they can be fully assembled for offensive use. The South Vietnamese army has invaded the A Shau valley, an almost untouchable redoubt of Communist troops since they overran a U.S. Special Forces base there in 1966. Other allied units are positioned for "mobile defense" to come to the aid of any city or cities that the enemy tries to hit again...
...places remain in South Viet Nam where Communist forces enjoy anything like a sanctuary and can operate with relative impunity. One is the A Shau Valley in northernmost I Corps, which was taken by the North Vietnamese two years ago when they overran a U.S. Special Forces camp and has been held by them ever since. The other is the U Minh Forest deep in the Delta, a Viet Cong domain since the end of World War II. Last week U.S. airpower-with, in one instance, a major assist from nature-was put to work to destroy those sanctuaries...
...almost at will in large units, forcing the Americans to stay holed up in their bases most of the time. In the Central Highlands of the II Corps last week three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars managed to break through the perimeter wire of a U.S. artillery base and overran one howitzer position...