Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pushing through the overflow crowd jammed into the Senate caucus room to hear him, the Secretary of State appeared fit and fresh in his pin-stripe grey suit and gay red necktie. Once more he was on hand to explain the President's request for authorization to 1) use U.S. forces, if requested, to defend any Middle Eastern nation against Communism, and 2) spend, without restriction, $200 million of already appropriated funds for Middle Eastern economic aid. Late the next afternoon, as he wearily pulled on his overcoat after questioning by the combined Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services...
Speaking to an overflow crowd of about 1400 in Sanders Theatre, Gaitskell stressed the need for increased Anglo-American cooperation in this area of the world. He conceded that it might be necessary "for the United States to proceed without close and obvious cooperation with Britain and France," but asked for some consultation now with a gradual increase in the future...
...lectures are under the auspices of the Graduate School of Public Administration. Edward S. Mason, dean of the school, said that he expects Sanders Theatre to be filled to its 1400-seat capacity, although the lectures will be broadcast by WGBH-TV and FM and WHRB. Overflow crowds will be able to hear the address in Memorial Hall over a public address system...
...spite of the telecast, an overflow crowd is expected. 1,400 will be seated in Sanders, according to Edward S. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, and the overflow will hear the speech from Memorial Hall...
...dead and useless bodies (suffocating names, proficiences, and adjectives--states symbolized) revered because they are dead and useless and can't kick. The poet treats these bodies to expressions--Cockadoodle doo!--and then hands them to the strangler who near the end is caught reading The Hudson Review. I overflow on Kenneth Koch because he is alive and seems to exemplify in some ways what the editors have gotten around to saying. He is also clear...