Word: overflowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weekend began with a bad omen as the tracksters travelled down to Penn a day early for Friday night's qualifying trials--promptly cancelled without the anticipated overflow expected for the meet--and the restless Crimson had to spend an unnecessary 24 hours in Philly. W.C. Fields would have been sympathetic...
Speak of the devil. First Evangelist Billy Graham, in England for a 21-day revival on the Oxbridge campuses, slipped in his bathtub, bruising ribs and brewing a painful case of pleurisy. Then, as an overflow audience of 20,000 jammed Oxford's scruffy town hall to hear a Southern-drawled sermon on sin, a number of students decided to be sophomoric. Some heckled Graham as a fascist, others set off the hall's fire alarm and cut closed-circuit TV cables that were carrying his message to 5,000 listeners in five other auditoriums. The preacher...
Their intensity ignited the overflow audience, equally divided between bald physicians and hairy activists, who responded in gasps, shudders, and finally applause. "I've never felt so frightened and excited at the same time," said one young listener...