Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Mr. Wilbur's poems were easier for the listener, for they are less compact, more filled out with sometimes excess adjectives. He began with several works probably familiar to many members of the audience, including the excellent "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," and the sharp and effective "Voice From Under the Table." Later in the program he moved to most recent works, with a neat contrast between two love poems, "Someone Talking to Himself" --very world-renouncing and romantic--and "Loves of the Puppets," in the same vein as "Voice from Under the Table...
What does this mean for oldsters' health? Purpose of the tables, said Dr. Master, is to show the tie-up between excess weight and diabetes, gall-bladder trouble, and diseases of the heart, arteries and kidneys. Already evident, he said, is that in both sexes after 65, blood pressure goes up with weight, but has little or no relationship to height alone. And despite the popular belief that tall people die younger, height has nothing to do with longevity. Weight is the villain, Dr. Master concluded. "It is clear that obesity reduces the life span, and the outlook...
...commanding lead over the middle-price field. In the luxury field, Cadillac reported a five-month total of 65,413-the best January-May in the company's 57-year history. American Motors expected to turn out its 300,000th Rambler one day this week, far in excess of its total production in any previous model year...
...fact about Simone de Beauvoir that emerges most clearly from the Memoirs is that she lacks the classic French quality of mesure, or "nothing in excess." From the dutiful daughter she became the no-quarter feminist. From the total order of Catholicism, she moved to the universe of total absurdity embodied in atheist existentialism. Even travel, which ought to have broadened her mind, merely served to harden her. Thus, thinking Communism good, she went to Red China (The Long March) and found it a paradise; thinking the U.S. bad, she found America, Day by Day a demihell. The purity fetish...
RENEGOTIATION ACT giving government right to recapture excess profits from defense contractors was extended four years by House, is virtually certain of Senate approval. U.S. now nets about $100 million a year from renegotiations which will be softened slightly under...