Search Details

Word: overflowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...United States, Christianity, and education in America are the three greatest enemies of the Indian people, Russell Means, former leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) told an overflow crowed in Science Center A last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russell Means Calls U.S. Enemy of Indian People | 2/26/1977 | See Source »

Many professors announced yesterday they will change rooms to accommodate the overflow, but Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, simply spent the first lecture of History 1613, "American Political History Since 1970," talking about the jammed Sever 11 classroom where he plans to continue teaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mix-Ups Mark Beginning of New Term | 2/8/1977 | See Source »

...number of letters to the editors of newspapers. Said Roger Linscott, associate editor of the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.: "It's not apathy. People are involved in public affairs, but it's all local, at-home stuff." Town meetings in rural Amherst, N.H., have drawn overflow, boisterous crowds to debate how to limit the community's growth. Hundreds of demonstrators have virtually halted plans to build a nuclear power plant at Seabrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NEW ENGLAND TURNING INWARD | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Gazing at the overflow congregation in All Saints' Church, Bishop Donald Davis recited the statement that precedes all Episcopal ordinations: "If any of you know any impediment or crime because of which we should not proceed, come forward now and make it known." Immediately Indiana Layman Robert 'Strippy rose to condemn the proceedings as "heresy" and "sacrilege." Said he: "The result can only be schism from the body of Christ." With that a dozen people, many of them in tears, marched out of the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Father, Make Her a Priest' | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...sincerity. There may be moments when he speculates with great profundity and great tedium about every slimydeep secret in Muldoon's self-absorbed soul. Yet there is something appealing about a man who defines his condition thus: "The plumbing of my mind was suffering from a momentary backup and overflow of literary illuminations...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Alley-Catting, God Knows Where | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next