Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-placed missile in each of the casernes (camps) would destroy most of the tanks, trucks, Jeeps and other equipment not already inoperable from an excess of paint and polish and an absence of proper care and maintenance...
Starches and excess carbohydrates are omitted from the gridder's twice daily meals at the Varsity Club, he pointed out. The small steaks given to players before games are also beneficial, Yovicsin said...
...most successful merchandisers of charm to U.S. women is Slenderella International, whose 150 salons played soft music while vibrating tables shook excess inches off flabby matrons. Last week Slenderella itself underwent a slimming treatment. Patrols of Internal Revenue Service agents, watches carefully synchronized, swooped down on Slenderella salons in 24 cities, slapped on liens for $1,235,445 in unpaid taxes, picked up any cash handy. So swiftly did the action come that Slenderella managers and patrons were taken completely off guard. In New York City two women entered while a revenue agent was scooping up cash from the registers...
...Excess of Orders. Stripped of the bulk of its empire, economically and physically sapped by two wars, Britain looks for a way out of its troubles, and finds less room than most for maneuver. As its new budget shows (see below), Britain is more prosperous than at any other time since World War II. Never have more people owned their own homes; there are waiting lists for cars, tailors cannot get enough cutters to meet the tremendous demand for new suits, bookings for expensive continental holidays are the highest ever. Only in the past four years have the British enjoyed...
...enough doctors and nurses are trained in the special handling of incubator cases, said Dr. Dennis, especially in regulating the oxygen supply, now that it is known that an excess of oxygen can cause blindness (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). Even with the best of care, many preemies begin to suffocate because a membrane blocks the lungs' air sacs: nobody knows why half of such cases get better and show no ill effects, while the other half die. Bile pigment, which the immature liver cannot handle, may pile up in the blood and cause brain damage. Best way to treat...