Word: overcrowding
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...until the government tried to extend its policy last month to the big city of Johannesburg, that it found it had seriously underestimated the power of the women. The black women of Johannesburg adopted an unusual strategy: not to avoid arrest but to welcome the chance to overcrowd the jails. Morning after morning, they would board buses in the suburbs, some carrying umbrellas, others carrying babies on their backs, and head for the grimy brick building that houses the pass office. There they would chant, "Sera sa motho ke pasa [The pass is the enemy of man]," and sometimes they...
...hardly reasonable or fair for the University to enforce rules that overcrowd streets a few blocks away and leave nearby streets bare at night. A much more sensible solution, and one that seems to have worked well in the brief period it was tried here, was the alternate-side plan set up by the City Council. This temporary plan is still in operation in the rest of the city, and will probably be extended by the Council until...
...their next monthly meeting, the seven Housemasters will consider plans to acquaint freshmen with the Houses. Probably the best plan would be to allow each freshman a total of 25 House dinners throughout the year. This would not overcrowd House dining rooms, and it would give each freshman a chance to look over the advantages and activities of each House. He might even meet the tutors. And when House applications come out, the freshmen would have a little more on which to base their decisions...
...Houses. And in the second place, the House Masters, conservative as always, have decided that now is the appropriate moment to retrench their room quotas to last year's level. So they have sliced 200 of the 240 February vacancies off the list, claiming that filling them again would "overcrowd" their House residents. The real value behind such a decision may be debatable-but then probably few House Masters have noticed the crowding that has been going on in Cleverly, Dudley, and other such outlying districts. Using this line of reasoning, there remain but 40 House room places...
Squeeze Play. In Washington, the Ralph Burlesons and their seven children, barred from a six-room house because they would "overcrowd" it, snuggled together in a one-room flat...