Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LaLanne may come on strong but the ladies apparently love every groaning, grunting minute of it. Each weekday morning he trims something like a ton of excess fat off 15 million women in 80 U.S. cities...
...Connell Plan offers no true solution. It is a sheer palliative intended to satisfy everyone. It offers to the advocate of liability without fault direct insurance payments for economic loss up to $10,000, regardless of negligence. However, it retains traditional litigation based on fault for economic loss in excess of $10,000 and for pain and suffering claims above $5,000. Obviously, it will encourage claimants to increase their demands to an amount which will bring them into court-and there they will still be faced with the present outmoded concepts and procedures-and interminable delay. Compensation plans similar...
...which will integrate dollars from Sweden, lectures from Britain and extension agents from the Peace Crops. Our pace is set by the Government of Botswana. Any Volunteers or staff who has witnessed underemployment will never be tempted to prefer growth to sound judgment. Two further factors now guarantee against excessively rapid growth: a new system of budgeting introduced by the Bureau of the Budget and the clear excess of needs for Volunteers over current response of this generation...
After centuries of speculation, most of it idle and all of it profitless, typical gout was recognized in 1931 as an "inborn error of metabolism," indicating that something was wrong with the patients' enzyme systems. But what? Although it was easy to show that victims had an excess of uric acid in their blood, the metabolic pathways by which it got there remained hidden in the biochemical jungle. Then in Baltimore, Pediatrician William L. Nyhan Jr. and Dr. Michael Lesch saw two retarded brothers with the palsy and biting symptoms. It has since been learned that a substance...
What met his eye last week was not a paucity of happenings but 1967's "ten grossest excesses." It was a brilliant, unpartisan, vindictive selection. Charles de Gaulle was there, of course, along with Mao and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The 1967 football season, hanging on "like a summer cold," qualified. So did Jacqueline Kennedy magazine covers and the movie Casino Royale, "the utter boring vacuity of the put-on carried to excess." Among gross literary excesses there was, happily, Marshall McLuhan's "losing battle with the English language," and The Story of O, "unarguably the dullest...