Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built in rural counties whose officials are not used to handling the decisions and red tape that go along with setting up a town for hundreds of thousands of people. Developers must almost always fight for zoning changes. Counties sometimes cannot build schools fast enough to accommodate the influx of people. There are always disputes about who should pay for access roads to the new city. For example, a four-lane highway runs through Reston linking Dulles Airport and Washington. But no one can get on or off at Reston. The Federal government insists that an exit or entrance...
...watching Boston Latin lose to Boston English 20-18 in the traditional football battle between two ancient high school rivals. Many of the spectators crossed the Larz Anderson Bridge into Cambridge, intent on taking MBTA subways and buses home. But the buses and subways could not handle the sudden influx at once, and as the largely teen-aged crowd backed up in Harvard Square, it turned into a surly mob. Beatings, purse-snatchings, and acts of vandalism broke out all over the Square, and before a hastily assembled force of policemen from Cambridge, Harvard, the MDC and the MBTA could...
...year round by the trade winds, has fine beaches-with Atlantic surf on one side and the calm, clear Caribbean on the other. The island's great hope is that these attractions will bring enough tourists to offset its dependence on sugar. The annual influx of tourists has risen from 25,000 in 1958 to 67,000, and is increasing by more than 15% a year...
University Health Services began to notice a larger-than-normal influx of patients last Thursday evening, and the victims were still trickling into Stillman Infirmary last night. In most cases, they complained of stomach pains and nausea; several attributed their illness to food eaten either in the Union or House dining rooms...
...Noyes and Menze! expeditions typify the mass influx of astronomers and equipment that awaits an area experiencing a total solar eclipse. A total eclipse provides scientists with their best opportunity to study the outer layers of the sun's atmosphere, and while the phenomenon occurs somewhere in the world about once every year, it always attracts a large scientific audience...