Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overflow audience in Burr B heard six prominent Europeans - two journalists, three politicians, and a civil servant - discuss "European Unity and the Common Market" at the third International Seminar Wednesday...
Conway felt that overflow from Leverett and the other existing Houses could fill up approximately 100 beds in the new House, leaving about 340 for expansion...
...richer for all this. Since World War II, G.M. has brought into the U.S. through dividends from its subsidiaries and exports from its U.S. plants a staggering $5 billion in foreign earnings. Of this, almost 25% came during the past three years to help out when the gold overflow became critical. (One reason why Detroit raises little outcry against foreign car sales in the U.S.: last year the U.S. spent $400 million on foreign cars, but exported autos and auto parts worth three times as much-$1.2 billion...
...vast, unlettered mass of Russian society. Today, through far-ranging recital tours and huge editions of their verse, they are reaching the widest, best-educated public in Russian history. The result has been a remarkable poetic revival. In theaters and student hostels from White Russia to Central Asia, overflow crowds listen to poets with almost religious fervor. On Sunday nights in summer, city squares echo to the liquid, incantatory cadences of Pushkin. Lermontov and. often. Zhenya Evtushenko. One good reason for poetry's popularity: scraps of "noiseless verse," as Russian writers call work that is too avant-garde...
...were catching fire, the bureau men borrowed a DC-6, filled its No. 3 fuel tank with water dyed bright red and coated its belly with a material that will absorb dye. Taking it into the air, they pumped more water into the No. 3 tank, forcing it to overflow through a vent. When they landed, they found that the wind had whipped the overflowing water to the belly and dyed it red. Included in the reddened area was the air intake of the cabin heating system. Conclusion: gasoline sucked into the heater had started the fires...