Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the massive Columbia shouldered against its banks, surged muddily over low-lying farmland and gnawed at its retaining dikes, the people of Vanport got a warning: the Columbia was 15 feet above flood level, highest in 54 years. It might overflow. One afternoon it did. The railroad fill protecting Vanport broke suddenly, and Vanport's jerry-built structures crumpled like matchwood under 15 feet of muddy water. In the wild scramble for safety, wives were separated from husbands, mothers from children. Bewildered and shocked, survivors told of seeing "hundreds" trapped by splintering walls or crushed...
...cockpit of a big modern airliner is a nightmare of instruments, switches, knobs, push buttons and warning lights. They crowd for attention in front of the pilot and copilot. They encrust the walls, drip from the roof like stalactites and overflow into the cubbyhole where the flight engineer sits. On a Boeing Strato-liner, there are 598 gadgets to watch. The three-man crew must know what each one is, where it is, and how to use it instantly. In an emergency, a few seconds of fumbling may mean a crash...
Alberta was sure it would get all this back, and more. Pre-season bookings at the Banff, Jasper and Waterton Lakes chalets were heavy, the tourist camps were sprucing up. For the overflow, the Alberta Travel Bureau was lining up private homes, even vacant hospital beds. The province expected to top last year's record of 752,000 visitors and to reap a $20 million return. It was expecting but not encouraging 50,000 to rough it over the resort-shy Alaska Highway...
Students' Choice. He drew overflow audiences at Dayton and Hamilton, was vociferously cheered by 3,500 Miami University students who had just held a mock convention, in which he was nominated for President. By week's end he had made Taft's campaign seem dull and almost apathetic...
...must not think that Russia is always to blame for world problems," Mrs. Dean told an overflow crowd in Kirkland House Common Room. "Even if Communism did not exist, the world today would still be seething with unrest, following the destruction caused by World...