Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...character thus introduced by Novelist Naipaul (rhymes with highball) belongs to that growing family of ex-colonial heroes who have their feet firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster's Dr. Aziz and Evelyn Waugh's Emperor Seth burned with a hard heathen shame, Ganesh shoulders the white-collar burden with the happy ease of a born...
...Minneapolis' Physiologist Ancel Keys and his wife, Biochemist Margaret Keys, answered yes in Eat Well and Stay Well (Doubleday; $3.95), addressed to laymen as well as doctors. Although he insists that coronary disease and early deaths from heart attacks undoubtedly have many causes, Dr. Keys reasons that an excess of cholesterol in the blood is almost certainly a danger signal. Also, there is evidence suggesting that high-fat meals increase the danger of blood clots, commonest cause of heart attacks...
...capitalist plot-"advantageous to the ruling classes, who are at present engaged in lowering the living standard of the masses, in lowering their wages and in raising the price of food and particularly of fat. The masses in capitalist countries suffer from a shortage and not from an excess...
Does this outpouring mean credit is being used to excess? Bankers think not. Their delinquency record is minuscule; the recession's trough produced few deadbeats. Ben H. Wooten, president of Dallas' First National Bank, told the credit conference: ''Private credit has not been abused. The amount outstanding today is not excessive in relation to our ability to service...
Biggest complicating factor is a basic fact of pharmacology: there is no sharp line between poisonous and nonpoisonous substances-common salt can be a poison in excess, and arsenic can be a lifesaver. Dr. Arnold J. Lehman, the FDA's pharmacology director, quotes the Swiss Alchemist-Physician Paracelsus (1493-1541): "Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." Some chemicals are poisonous over the years even in minute doses, and these the FDA will ban outright. But in the main, under its new legislative charter to protect...