Word: brims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most public opinion analysts suspect that Kennedy's popularity may already have peaked, that it is the mythic Ted Kennedy who leads Carter 2 to 1. Says Pollster Field: "His popularity is like a great reservoir that is filled to the brim...
...overflowed the cup but still you keep on pouring! Why do you keep trying to put more in when there is no room left in the cup?" The master replied, "Yes, my friend, you are right. Your mind is like this teacup. It is filled to the brim with opinions and prejudices, dogma and theology, logic and arguments. Whatever I pour into it now will overflow. There is no room left for anything to enter. Unless you empty your mind, what can I give...
...situation is worsening," an hydrologist for the National Weather Service said yesterday. The river rose to 20 feet above flood stage and just a foot below the brim of the weakened makeshift dikes...
...tops the brim. Why must you be a martyr...
Another young American in the room, who understands what that song means to our generation, looks at me with a haunted expression on his face. It is a sort of Vietnam deja-vu, combined with the horrors of our own decade ten years later. Tears brim in my friend's eyes. They are already falling from mine...