Word: overflowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surgeons are reaching the limit of their endurance, and the overflow of wounded are waiting on the ground for their dressings to be changed. The water of the river in which bodies float can be filtered only in eyedropperfuls. There is just about enough water to give the men when they get delirious from thirst...
...Thanks to new splash gutters and overflow pipes, which carry off pool-edge turbulence...
...after night, after 11,000 were seated and another 1,000 allowed to stand, thousands more were turned away. So many people came on the first Saturday that Graham decided to make three-meeting Saturdays a permanent feature of his three-month crusade. Other plans to deal with the overflow: midweek matinee meetings, subsidiary meetings in movie houses to be toured by Graham, loudspeakers in nearby Harringay Stadium on the five nights a week when there are no dog races...
While a score of student organizations prepared for possible surprise visits from the 1952 Democratic presidential nominee, Cambridge and University police made plans to handle overflow crowds at Sanders Theatre tonight. Anxious for a seat, one hardy Boston lass camped out on the steps of Memorial Hall to be sure of getting first place in today's rush...
Part of the expected overflow will be seated in Memorial Hall on folding chairs, and in New Lecture Hall. The speech will be piped into both places and broadcast simultaneously by WHRB and the Lowell Institute over WGBH...