Word: overflowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ninety minutes later, as Ike strode into the Indian Treaty Room of the old State Department Building for his first press conference in eight weeks, an overflow (311) crowd of reporters craned their heads to see for themselves. The President, dressed in a lightweight grey suit, looked more fleshed-out than during his Gettysburg convalescence, but still seemed thin...
...plight of 14 bachelor grad students living in William James Hall this summer is indeed a sad one. An overflow of summer school males into the graduate dormitories has brought about a policy of "a few must suffer for the sins of many." In this case the sin is merely one of overcrowding, but the grad students in question are still suffering...
Ullman explained that Tufts has held seminars on drinking for seven years. "The seminars have become so popular," he said, "that we have inaugurated classes on this subject in other departments to take care of the overflow." In answer to a question, Ullman said that he saw no need for courses on alcoholism in grammar schools...
Schlesinger's course in American intellectual history is now one of the most popular in the College. At the first meeting this year, he stood before an overflow crowd of three hundred and announced with his dead-pan expression--"Let's all petition for a bigger room." Schlesinger delights his packed lecture hall with a unique combination of insights into intellectual trends, ironic descriptions of American religious prophets, and quips about conservatives from Fisher Ames to John Foster Dulles...
...Dulles left the hearing room after four hours of testimony, the Democratic liberals were ready with statements of shocked incredulity for the press. But the overflow crowd gave Dulles a hearty round of applause. In his first hours against the storm, the Secretary of State had indeed done well. He had eased as many of the apprehensions about U.S. foreign policy as a Cabinet officer could. But the problems and the dangers were still there, and so was the heat of a presidential election year...