Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American boy who, after leading in the early going, dropped out of the race in Newton with a leg problem. Or that of the hectic start at Hopkinton, where the record field of over 3000 runners vied with Paul Newman (making a movie on the race) for the overflow crowd's attention. And I wish I could explain in detail how the Honeywell Computer made sense out of all the names, numbers and times at the finish line, or list even a few of the t-shirt slogans (which ranged from HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM to HACK'S BAR to ARTHRITISto...
Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, last night spoke on the issue of minority admissions programs instituted by many American universities before an overflow audience of 100 in the Straus Common Room...
...work for the objective of world peace will never end," Willy Brandt, former chancellor of West Germany, said last night to an overflow crowd of more than 1800 in Kresge Auditorium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Szasz spoke before an overflow crowd in Pound Hall at the opening session of the weekend symposium on "Crime and Punishment: Restitution, Retribution...
Cheever's great strength has always been his ability to charge both the ordinary and the fanciful with emotion. Falconer is strong on feelings, even though they often overflow the novel's loose structure. Farragut is admittedly a man keenly aware of the banal ironies of his life and of his own sententious observations. Yet at times Cheever imposes them on the reader as if the novel itself were a correctional institution. "We prisoners," says Farragut, "more than any men, have suffered for our sins, we have suffered for the sins of society, and our example should cleanse...