Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explanation for the problem of excess enrollments, especially marked in humanities and social science courses, was offered by John F. Freeman '51, head section man in Social Sciences 4. An unusually high number of freshmen, he said, were taking both the humanities and social sciences courses in their first year...
...period of complete bed rest is about three weeks, followed by convalescence of two or three months; in more serious cases, convalescence lasts six months or more. Doctors' long-term advice to most recovered coronary patients includes regular-but not strenuous-exercise, abstinence from tobacco, dieting against excess weight, and, insofar as it is possible, freedom from emotional tension. Under modern medical care, 80% of all coronary thrombosis cases survive their first attack, and many of them live long afterward...
...Roving Eye. As the century gathered momentum, no excess in art or in the search for salvation became too violent. At one extreme, the lusty court of France's François I plunged into headlong forgetfulness by cultivating an extravagant taste for involved classical allegory which made abundant use of nude figures...
...best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...
...young giraffes, in coltish mood, cross necks as men cross swords, and duel off their excess energy...