Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...domestic mineral and metal products beyond normal needs by guaranteeing a market for much of the extra output. The guarantees served their purpose. But when demand slacked off and prices fell, the Administration had to buy up the surplus. It either had to raise stockpile limits or dump excess metals on a shaky market...
...picture's frantic and continued pitch is actually the only factor that at times edges Beauty beyond the point of excellence into the realm of excess. Josette Day's performance as Beauty scores the danger larking in an overdose of horror. The plot demands that the heroinc ignore self-opening doors, living statuary and arms that project through the wall to hold candelabra. Furthermore, she must recognize the pure soul of the Beast shining through a hair-matted body and lighting a vaguely feline and totally grotesque face (superb make-up, this). Well, the actress does not live...
...uranium will be dissolved. A fair guess is that it may be heavy water. Since the reactor will be a breeder, it must be economical of neutrons, and heavy water does not absorb as many neutrons as ordinary water does. Instead of breeding U-238 into plutonium, the excess neutrons from its reacting core will be absorbed in thorium, turning it into fissionable U-233-Thorium is probably more plentiful than uranium, and it has been discussed for years as a promising source of nuclear energy. This is the first time that the AEC has shown by a definite commitment...
...Arts department's failure to orient its program toward the undergraduate," is surely a masked lamentation upon the departure of the professor teaching Fine Arts 14. The prospect of the absence of a "fresh, interpretive approach to original works of art" seems to have prompted the writer to an excess of emotional slander aimed at this department. If he had said simply that he was unhappy to see this professor leave--a result of appointment to the faculty of another well-known Eastern college--then we might sympathize with his genuine regret. However, Friday's editorializing mixes fact with...
...been shockingly weak, it is not because he is essentially a weak man. Certainly the great courage and foresight which he displayed in Europe both during and after the war belch any such statement. His present weakness stems not from any lack of personal courage, but from an excess reliance on his White House advisors...