Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passengers. South Korean authorities called in machine gunners and military jets to prevent the plane from leaving. For the passengers, crowded six abreast in the plane, the impasse was hell. The men's hands were tied behind them with twine; the air became sour; toilets reached the overflow point. The skyjackers kept the doors shut and window shades drawn...
...trial of all political activism in this country started with the trials of the Black Panthers." French playwright Jean Genet told an overflow crowd at M.I.T.'s Student Union last night...
...overflow crowd was relatively orderly throughout most of the speeches by faculty and students, but several students started to speak unrecognized from the floor when the chair refused to entertain their motion for adjournment...
...Odyssey House, a rehabilitation center for drug addicts, calls it an epidemic. The first young heroin users began appearing at her clinic only last June, she says. Today the traffic is more than Odyssey House can handle-four to six junior junkies every day. To accommodate the overflow, Dr. Densen-Gerber has opened two branches solely for youthful addicts. One of her first applicants: a nine-year...
...overflow crowd of 75, including Lowell, heard the 1959 reading. The program Feb. 18 will be held in Hayden Hall, which seats 950 people...