Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tattoo in Rome, so carried away by Italian "vitality ... and love of life" that he jumped from one extreme to another. Perhaps the knowledge that he had been repeating himself counted for as much as the atmosphere of Rome. In any case, at both extremes he displays the same excess: the same romanticism, sensationalism, violence. Now he writes of a woman who, when baffled, shatters her household possessions instead of her sanity-a woman who has to be rescued from a mausoleum instead of sent to a madhouse...
...second since the beginning of November...In addition, 10,000 men of the Royal Navy...have been in the Korean theater since the beginning...Thus, with the small force of Royal Marine Commandos and two squadrons of R.A.F. Flying Boats, the total British manpower committed is in excess...
...cells of the blood are constantly "being born" and "dying." Some body mechanism, still unidentified, must constantly dispose of the normal accumulation of white cells. The California scientists concluded that one such mechanism is located in the lungs. Its breakdown may prove an added and important cause of the excess of young white cells in leukemia...
Herod will have his new headquarters in London, work with a twelve-member Defense Production Board. Last week, following his appointment, he went into the hospital for a minor operation, said: "The NATO industrial structure, properly integrated with our own, can arrive at a potential far in excess of anything that Russia and its satellites, including China, are capable of. The problem is to organize the contributions to that potential...
...hush did not last long. The 82nd had come in on the heels of the turbulent 81st, which had quit only the day before. In a final burst of legislative speed, the 81st had passed the $20 billion supplementary military appropriation, the $3.1 billion civilian-defense bill, and the excess-profits tax designed to add $3.3 billion to the Government's revenue. In spending for defense, the 82nd would no doubt continue to follow in the Sist's large footsteps...