Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than ever, bookies and creditors began to press for payment of the prince's debts. Father Nizam paid off some $4,720,000, and the prince promised to reform. But he didn't. In the past twelve months he has chalked up debts some $500,000 in excess of his income. Last week the Nizam called a halt: Azam's 23-year-old son, now at Sandhurst, and not Azam himself, would become the Nizam's heir. Henceforth, the Nizam announced in an ad in a local paper, anyone lending money to son Azam "would have...
...class will assemble in Cambridge for five days, during which time they will present a sum, probably in excess of $300,000, to President Pusey for the College's unrestricted use, "jamboree" at the Essex County Club, and watch "Kismet" at the North Shore Music Center...
...They Wanted, neatly packed into one room has been wildly scattered and in places quite submerged all over the Napa Valley countryside. For all that is folkish in Fella, something plaintively simple is missing; as there is sentiment and to spare but no pervasive current of emotion. For in excess of any proper musical's quota, Fella has been choked up, and in places even hoked up with rustic razzle-dazzle and vineyard partygoing. All this might just get by were the parties more festive; but despite plenty of good dance music, Fella offers remarkably commonplace dancing...
Lamb was licked because he was repeatedly caught in misstatements. More than four months ago Lamb bragged that he had 100,000 shares of Seiberling stock. In February he boosted his claim to "in excess of 150,000 shares." But three weeks later, in a statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Lamb admitted that he and his associates held only 79,029 shares...
...failure, in which the heart periodically or progressively fails to meet the body's demands for blood and dangerously overworks. It causes "dropsy"-the body's retention of salt and water. One standard way to get rid of excess brine has been to inject a mercurial diuretic. Five research reports at Atlantic City meetings indicated that a mercurial drug to be taken regularly by mouth, chlormerodrin (Neo-hydrin), is both effective and safe for long-term...