Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stand Down, Monkey." The State Department received a few hundred nasty letters and calls, just as here and there around the country the kooks and bigots relieved themselves of excess bile at Rusk's expense. An American Nazi Party captain in El Monte, Calif., declared: "I'd probably kill any of my children before I'd let them do such a thing." His reaction was echoed by a respectable businessman lunching at the Westmoreland Country Club in Glenview, Ill.: "If I were Rusk, I'd be inclined to shoot the guy." A grande dame...
Seizing his scissors, Cardin fashioned another, chestier paper jacket, put it on the evening jet from Paris to Nice, whence it was whisked by helicopter to Janis mere moments before the performance. Pausing only to snip off some excess sleeve, Janis donned the coat and played his concert to pandemonious applause. And why a paper dinner jacket in the first place? Well, in the first place it's pretty chic; and-uh-Janis works up quite a sweat...
...process, ITT's lobbyists and public relations men have been charged with an excess of zeal. Several reporters accused the company of trying to manipulate the news-and this was especially damaging since a main Justice Department complaint is that ITT's worldwide business interests might encourage the company to influence ABC's public-affairs programming. Justice's other key objections are that the merger would result in a cash drain away from already-strapped ABC (both companies insist that, on the contrary, ITT would be supplying the network with fresh capital) and that it would...
...more abundant supply of melanin, are in effect, perpetually tanned. Members of the white race are transparent-skinned in winter, when they must make the most of the limited ultraviolet avail able to synthesize vitamin D, but they take a tan in summer, when they might suffer from an excess. There are other bits of confirmatory evidence: the only relatively dark-skinned people in high latitudes are the Eskimos, who get all the vitamin D they need from fish-liver oils. Until the 1930s, when irradiation of milk to enrich its vitamin D content became prevalent, U.S. Negro children suffered...
...life. Babies of all races are lighter than adults, presumably reflecting nature's provision for early vitamin D needs. And people of all races have pale, unpigmented palms and soles. Since these parts have extra keratin and are not exposed to ultraviolet, they need no melanin protection against excess vitamin D synthesis...