Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coop's by-laws require that 10 per cent of the card-carrying students and officers of the University be present before an election can be held. This number would be somewhere in excess of the 200 who could fit into Harvard Hall...
...operation since May 1 this year. Once inside the pressurized chambers, Dr. Hitchcock reported, the hospital staff and patient share all the dangers of the deep-sea diver. There is nitrogen narcosis, or Cousteau's "raptures of the deep"-also known as "the martini effect"-caused by excess nitrogen; "oxygen ebullience," a kind of euphoria resulting from excess oxygen; and finally, "the bends" or "caisson disease," from too-rapid decompression...
...actions have been as admirable. The wire tapping bill he supported (and to his credit later repudiated) conflicted sharply with his strong support of civil liberties. Often he performed his role of Administration hatchet man with an excess of energy--particularly in his treatment of the executives responsible for the steel price rise and in his relentless, seemingly ruthless, drive to convict James Hoffa. But the assassination coupled with a period of introspection have left him more subdued...
...this unhappy story unravels, it becomes increasingly clear why The Idiot was not released in this country until Kurosawa had established a reputation with his samurai films. For one thing, many of the actors are prone to excess, in one way or another. Toshiro Mifune, as a rowdy, alternates between bug-eyed rage and glowering indignation; Masayuki Mori, as the idiot, plays everything in a kind of sad-eyed slow motion that conveys saintliness but also causes boredom; and several secondary characters engage in the snorting histrionics that seem peculiarly Japanese. Moreover--presumably because The Idiot originally ran more than...
Total cost of the new annex will be "in excess of $2 million," according to John G. Morrill, general manager of the Coop. Morrill said night that "the need for more room is obvious" and that in the present annex there is "no comfort, no service" and only" terrifically crowded conditions...