Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Veteran Conductor Bruno Walter led the orchestra the first night, drew an overflow crowd of 3,000 (300 standees). He reached back more than a century for his first two numbers: Weber's Euryanthe overture and Mozart's Symphony No. 39. Edinburgh applauded but was hardly swept away. But in the second half, Walter & Co. won a real ovation with Mahler's powerful Symphony No. 4 (1901). Fusing strings perfectly with the horns, the visitors gave Mahler* a sheen that few Britons had heard before. They whistled and shouted, called Conductor Walter back to the podium...
...young fellows in T-shirts and dungarees, but there were also housewives in cotton dresses, a father holding his child on his shoulder to give him a better view. The crowd was good-natured, as if going to a game, and the cops acted like ushers politely handling the overflow at a football stadium. But as darkness fell, some in the crowd got false courage from the night. They tossed firecrackers over police lines. Pressing forward inch by inch, the mob began to push the police back. From time to time the crowd would chant...
Another time, she attended an overflow meeting conducted by a faith healer, who with his exhortations and layings-on-of-hands had set Columbus afire. Somehow she got hold of a stretcher, lay down on it, and had a couple of friends carry her toward the platform. Halfway down the aisle, Mamie flipped to her feet, yelling, "I can walk! I can walk! It's the first time I've walked in 40 years!" Hundreds wept or screamed at the miracle...
...twelve fully laden tankers lay in the hot, bustling Persian Gulf port of Abadan, unable to move because Teheran insisted that the tanker captains sign receipts saying they owed the "Iranian National Oil Co." for their cargoes. Ten more days of this and Abadan's storage facilities would overflow, the world's largest refinery would have to shut down...
...first aptitude tests will be given a week from the Saturday. The bulk of the college students will take the exams them. The testing service was forced to shift many students to M.I.T. for the first test, due to an overflow of applications. The three other tests will be given June 16, June 30, and July...