Word: overflowings
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...ever spawned by it. The countryside was a vast shoulder to run on to when fatigue became insistent, and the miles only brought darkness and more miles and heavy air and weighted silences til finally we were entrenched in America and swimming through its four-wheeled overflow, in its high-rolling, garbage consuming intestinal tract...
This promise of resurrection inspired new devotion in the church's sober flock of about 70 auto workers, teachers, small businessmen and housewives. They recruited ten new believers and expanded the church parking lot to handle the overflow crowds they expect when Gill returns. Since last August, especially devout members have been honored by appointment to a corps that keeps a prayer vigil in the church 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to await Gill's resurrection...
...planned to hold classes in friends' living rooms, but when the ad drew more than 400 enthusiastic responses, the Sharpes realized that they had to raise their sights and promptly began making plans for a larger institution. Womanschool now has 24 courses, 30 faculty members, and an overflow enrollment of 500 students...
...trying to buy time. The supplemental aid might allow the Phnom-Penh government to withstand the insurgents" siege until July, when the Mekong River, swollen by heavy rains, will overflow, making it difficult for fighting to continue at its current level. Washington believes that the Khmer insurgents, who have suffered heavy losses in the long assault on the capital, might recognize that it would be better to negotiate than to gird up for yet another bloody dry-season offensive in the autumn...
While they were re-apportioning the one-year-old freshman dorm, the masters also bestowed Claverly on Adams, Lowell and Quincy Houses, for overflow sophomores...