Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is any sure sign of the decline of American civilization, it is its musical taste. While radio stations and night clubs overflow with hillbillies and rock-and-roll singers, jazz musicians--who are making America's first significant contribution to serious music--are too often without jobs. In virtually every city, a general decline has been evident. For example...
...other cities were not without fault, Whitmore noted. "Raw sewage has been observed flowing from Cambridge sewers into the river at a point between Lars Anderson Bridge and the Weld Boathouse," he wrote. "This may well be the result of lack of capacity of the sewers in periods when overflow is required...
...Throw Them Out." CBS Chairman William S. Paley had not even gaveled his overflow audience to order in Manhattan before a woman stockholder in red-feathered hat and raffish earrings got up to make a loud complaint: she had, she said, been issued a subpoena to keep quiet at the meeting. (Subpoenas are not issued for such purposes, and CBS said it had sought no order against her.) When he could finally get a word in, Paley proceeded to the meeting's business, which included the abrupt firing two months ago of CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey...
...these plans are carried out, the brick dormitories will not accommodate as many students as they now do, Mrs. Deane A. Lord, director of the Radcliffe News Office, said that any overflow from the brick dormitories would be put in the brick apartment building at 124 Walker...
...striving for perfection, Mrs. Hurst has made Brook overflow its banks. Profits have risen from $55,000 in 1955 to more than half a million dollars last year. In addition to its main office in London, the bureau has opened 46 branches, five of them last year. The Hurst chain's overseas offices in New York, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia, do a two-way business, finding English secretaries for American and Australian firms, American and Australian secretaries for English firms...