Word: overran
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Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie was a monarch of only 43 when his proud East African kingdom suffered one of the great outrages of the 20th century. While the League of Nations sat mute in Geneva in 1936, Italian troops overran the land and Benito Mussolini appeared on a Rome balcony to boast: "At last Italy has its empire...
...like we held off the Indians for two hours instead of one before they overran the camp," he said...
...lead in the torrential rain seemed insurmountable, but the Crimson added another insurance tally moments later. Halfback Norrie Harrower started the play by bringing the ball to midfield. Harrower then sent what appeared to be a pass forward to Gomez, but Gomez purposely overran the pass and the ball continued through the Dartmouth fullback line to Thomas...
...Communist presence in the ruins of Angkor was symptomatic of the war's tidal movement throughout Indochina. In supposedly neutral Laos, North Vietnamese forces overran and held the southern provincial capital of Saravane, which has for two years been a U.S. air-supplied island within the Communist-held countryside. The city's fall could well indicate that the Communists, who already control most of northeastern Laos, intend to tighten their grip on the country's southern reaches. In South Viet Nam, the Communists continued to step up the fighting in the northernmost I Corps with shellings, sapper...
...Communists struck an even more serious blow at an isolated ARVN artillery base named Tun Tavern, on a mountain ridge 21 miles south of the demilitarized zone. North Vietnamese regulars, who apparently entered through Laos, overran the outpost, killing 50 and wounding 119. The South Vietnamese, with the help of U.S. advisers, recaptured the base, but the attack underscored the blunt admission of a U.S. officer: "I Corps and II Corps are our problem areas now." In I Corps, the number of small-unit contacts in recent weeks has averaged more than the total in all the other military regions...