Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stevenson lectured to overflow crowds at Sanders Theater, on "A Troubled World." Previous lecturers have included Senator Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) ex-German high commissioners Lucius D. Clay, and John J. McCloy...
...students are part of the overflow normally housed in Claverly, but the surplus this year was too big to be absorbed in the usual manner, Dean Watson announced yesterday...
IRAQ has a long-range plan to restore the Biblical green of the Tigris-Euphrates, if only its restless people and its turbulent politicos will wait for its fruition. By turning the Wadi Tharthar (dry river bed) into a reservoir to sequester the Tigris-Euphrates overflow in floodtime, the annual drought-flood cycle will be controlled and Iraq's irrigated area doubled. It is being financed out of the country's oil royalties ($140 million last year...
...Lewis at the tavern: "We're ordering six bottles of vodka and practicing pouring it into tiny glasses until they almost overflow. We hear that's Russian style." Said Mrs. Pearce: "I'm installing...
...noon. At the county courthouse a television set was set up in a domestic-relations-court office and the shades were drawn. Out at Tellico Plains, Mayor Charles Hall put a set in a storage room next to his furniture store, lined up boxes, benches and chairs, drew an overflow crowd...