Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of a flood of ticket applications for what will probably be a confrontation between two of the East's three undefeated football powers, with the Ivy League title at stake, the Harvard Department of Athletics has been unable to meet the ticket requests of approximately 25,000 old grads...
...finally sealed Nixon's victory was, ironically, Illinois. In 1960, Mayor Richard Daley's magical machine in Cook County helped nail down John F. Kennedy's presidential victory by delivering enough votes to give him a 9,000-vote statewide margin. This time, despite another late flood of Democratic votes from Daleyland, Nixon clung to a slender advantage...
...single wing has a great advantage today," Lamar explained. "The power and the trapping in the single wing make it difficult for a team that is accustomed to the T offense." "The Tigers run good flood patterns off deceptive action passes," he added...
Lost in the Crowd. Once more Mickey was good, but Gibson was great. He struck out seven of the first 23 men he faced, allowed only three hits and no runs. Then Mickey was given another unexpected gift, this time by St. Louis' Curt Flood, generally accepted as one of the game's best outfielders. In the top of the seventh inning, with two Tigers on base, Detroit's Jim Northrup hit a deep but routine line drive to centerfield. Flood momentarily lost the ball against the white-shirted crowd, found it, then stumbled and watched...
...just about all of the show's components into his unifying conception. Ronald Field's joyous choreography is so tightly linked to the staging, that it's hard to believe Prince did not devise the dances himself. Don Walker's orchestrations, a precise blend of Greek and Broadway instrumentation, flood the theatre with frenzies of rhythm, adding as much to the atmosphere as Boris Aronson's simplistically beautiful sets...