Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson disposed of its highly-regarded opponents. The racquetmen ran off with the match by winning five of the first six contests completed. By the time Harvard's number one player, Kenton Jernigan, took court one for his long-awaited match with Princeton's Jeff Stanley, much of the overflow crowd had already left...
...should not surprise anyone who has watched Pollack's career develop. Straightforward and self-effacing stylistically, he has touched films as diverse as a transvestite farce (Tootsie) and a contemplation of journalistic ethics (Absence of Malice) with his own romantic idealism. Now he has allowed it to overflow the boundaries of his admirable professionalism. This is, in today's cultural climate, an unspeakably gallant act, but also one that may be richly rewarded. Out of Africa is, at last, the free-spirited, fullhearted gesture that everyone has been waiting for the movies to make all decade long. It reclaims...
...Senators] vote ideology? I think the answer is yes to a good extent," said Renhquist to the overflow crowd...
...holdings, took over University Hall in 1972. The ban on investments in banks that loan directly to the South African government closely followed the resurgence of anti-apartheid student activities in 1979. And when the University casually tried to retract that ban on loans to the pariah state, an overflow crowd of 400 students at an open meeting in 1982 denounced the move and stopped Harvard's retreat from an already minimalist and indefensible position...
That traditional protectiveness of the community can come to look something like class warfare. As skid rows overflow with the homeless, residents of nearby middle-class neighborhoods who feel threatened will often push back. Says one Yonkers woman: "Why can't they improve the quality of their lives without taking away from mine...