Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vines are more bountiful than at any other time in this century. The profusion of Pinot Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and other Champagne grapes sometimes led to confusion among the vintners. Moët and Chandon and Piper-Heidsieck had to rent Marne River barges to store their vinous overflow. Others used abandoned water towers and even swimming pools. Assessments of the size and quality of the grape crop in other wine districts were only slightly less heady. A spokesman for the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine, the industry's official group, summed up the quality: "For Bordeaux...
...call for the moratorium was made Tuesday by student body president Craig Morgan-an Air Force Training Corps Cadet who has been a Jeading exponent of non-violence at Kent State-at an overflow meeting of faculty and students in the university auditorium...
...relief sewage system, which will be built parallel to existing pipes, will eliminate overflow into the river. Together the sewers will carry 15 times the present dry weather flow. During rainstorms there are now at least six overflowing outlets in the Harvard area draining raw sewage into the Charles...
...force of 400 Zambian chauffeurs-in-training tooled around Lusaka in a fleet of 120 VIP cars, each equipped with a radiotelephone. The opening of the university's fall semester was delayed so that overflow guests could be housed in the dormitories...
...midevening the inn was jammed. Outside in the parking lot, the overflow of fifers and drummers set up their own jam sessions. One of those basking in the deafening music was Raymond Hill, fire chief of the City of Los Angeles. In Washington for a firemen's seminar, he had come to Deep River to attend his fifth muster. "Anybody who can hear an ancient corps and not have the hair raise on the back of his neck, why something's wrong with him," he said...