Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major problems that river side communities face is eliminating sewer lines that carry both rain water and waste material. During storms, these lines often overflow and carry untreated sewage into the Charles...
...platform scale, and whose family built the invention into the Fairbanks scale works, made the standard trip to Europe, returning with the usual milky-white copies of classics. Back home, he acquired works by the then-in-vogue Hudson River School painters, built the gallery to house the overflow. Fairbanks' most handsome purchase was Albert Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite. The San Francisco Call la mented at the time that the painting "is now doomed to the seclusion of a Ver mont town where it will astonish the na tives." It would have easily astonished sophisticated...
...stalks his victim toward a narrow byway where he can still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English night, a bid for freedom that ends as a muddy, bloody wrestling match. Though Author Fowles's harrowing final chapters are only capsuled on film, The Collector, even with its intelligence and insight curtailed, still pays off handsomely...
...relaxed and confident McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, yesterday confronted some of his faculty and student critics. He told an overflow audience in Lowell Lecture Hall that the number of American troops in South Vietnam may be increased by 50 per cent to meet a Vietcong offensive in a critical period of combat during the months ahead...
...Contrary to the impression left by your article "The Black-Banders," there are numerous campus ministers, faculty members, undergraduates, and graduate students disagreeing with our nation's present foreign policy who are neither disheveled nor degenerate. Here at Duke University, an overflow crowd heard four of this university's leading professors take issue with our policy in Southeast Asia. As moderator for five hours of that debate, I saw no hooting or jeering. I am convinced that even though those who are at odds with our war efforts in Southeast Asia are in the minority (at least...