Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rematch drew an overflow crowd, many perching on nearby rooftops to watch the action. After...
Gerbil Cages. Weber-style classes overflow into nearby corridors with an abundance of playthings that teachers in regular classrooms use only sparingly. There are cages of gerbils, collections of shells and leaves, art corners, carpeted areas where children can sprawl while they read. To encourage math and science, there is more than the usual amount of measuring equipment, from tape measures to stop watches. To encourage reading and writing, most of the materials have "activity cards" posing questions. Near a science book lying on a second-grade windowsill, for instance, the card asks: "Do you think our tree...
...session (it was later buried in a House committee). The bill, which passed 88 to 0, was to have provided funds to the states for low-cost meals for anyone 60 and over, particularly for the poor and members of the minorities. At a reception attended by an overflow crowd, Kennedy urged the delegates to keep up the pressure on the Administration...
...point, a crowd bustled out of a rehearsal hall. "Can't be our overflow," muttered Kramer. In his final summation, he repeated his "changing one mind" and "heady wine" statement, and shot a glance at the critics' corner...
...elected president. I would not only bring an end to the war in Vietnam, but I would also declare a general amnesty for all those who have stood up against it," the western Senator said to an overflow crowd at Rindge Technical Auditorium...