Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile six shelf stacks are being converted into seven-shelf stacks wherever the books are small enough for the shelves to be made thinner, and temporary wooden bookcases stand at the end of some aisles to hold the overflow...
Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, told an overflow crowd in Sanders Theatre last night the idea that "God is dead" is a meaningless concept...
...alienate so many of its neighbors in a single week. All around its vast perimeter, in a great circle from Russia and Japan on the north to India and Indonesia on the south, China stirred up trouble and resentment. The sudden spurt of hostility seemed prompted by an overflow of missionary zeal for Maoism, a certain amount of frustration at the difficulties encountered at home by Mao's Cultural Revolution and a new wave of China's historic xenophobia...
...shoehorned into the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at the Place des Arts, whose stage is about one-half as roomy. While seven translators repeated orders in Russian, English and French, workmen scurried about rolling up the backdrops to fit and putting up a tent to hold the overflow of the troupe's 3,000 costumes. Nonetheless, assured Chief Designer Vadim Rin-din, "the spectacle that will be seen here will be in no way inferior to that seen in Moscow...
...murder cases in November 1965. Almost by reflex, advocates of capital punishment then argued that without the deterrence of executions, the number of killings would soar. For those who judge by headlines, it looked for a while as if the critics might be right. British papers seemed to overflow with stories about THREE POLICEMEN SHOT DEAD and TWO LITTLE GIRLS MURDERED...