Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...persistent were these rumors, and so long undenied, that civilians began to discuss openly such things as: "Have you heard that things are going badly in the North? That there have been 70,000 dead and wounded-so many casualties that the wounded overflow from Leningrad to Moscow? Have you heard that the soldiers have no gloves and thin shoes-though the Government told us that we civilians must put up with our scarcity of clothes so that the defenders of revolution might lack nothing? Have you heard that the Finns have driven onto Russian soil at the very place...