Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of us who find football exceedingly dull were amazed at the insights of Herr Beyer. Not only does the "sport" seem to be an instrument of aggression for these oaf-like creatures who are too unintelligent to shoot off their excess energy elsewhere, but sociologically, the mass extravaganza is another of the modern "spectaculars" (similar to the late Roman gladiatorial combats) which are so much a sign of decadence...
...came a promise of continued stiffening of bank credit and an indication-certain to raise a din from the Laborite opposition-of cutbacks in food and housing subsidies, public works and other aspects of the Labor-fostered welfare state. Butler called it a program to "expand success and curb excess." "I did not know the horse would be so excitable when it saw the oats of freedom," said Rab Butler, less apt at figures of speech than figures of finance. "We need to prune back our roses to get better blooms...
...year. The dead twin still looms symbolically in Ed's imagination. Whenever he was whaled by his father or switched by the nuns at his parochial school, Ed would sob passionately that everything would have been different "if only Danny were here." Even today Ed mystically attributes his excess of energy to some supernatural source of supply fed him by the dead twin...
...annual "Red Mass"* of the New York Guild of Catholic lawyers, the Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, attacked the "obsessive liberalism" of the present day-"that frightened and frantic pursuit of freedom alone and at all costs." Obsessive liberalism, he said, "not only seeks an excess of freedom but denies any function to authority save that which is temporary, remedial-and for others. It has made 'authoritarian' a bad word in the semantics of our day. It has proliferated committees in defense of every freedom, but none to uphold authority. It has identified social...
Total Cambridge registration figures are in excess of 43,000 cars, or more than one car for every three residents. The national average is one car for four people, which in itself is astronomical. China has an estimated one car per 8,000 population, Russia one per 4,000 while England, Europe's leader has one for every 38 people, and Canada, next behind the U. S., has roughly one for every...