Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shifting more than a million excess Air Force rockets to the Army, which needed them for its attack helicopters, he saved the $41 million that new rockets would have cost...
...other moves to tighten internal security were police state tactics. "My government, " said Venezuela's OAS delegate, "cannot accept fighting Communist subversion with measures that are not in strictest conformity with democratic principles." U.S. citizens in Caracas, subjected to harassment and bombings in recent weeks, think this excess of scrupulosity helps explain Venezuela's poor security protection...
Aside from a feeling of social wellbeing, the only proven beneficial effect of sunning is the formation of vitamin D-something already in plentiful supply in the normal U.S. diet. In some cases, the sun also helps in clearing up acne and eczema, but excess exposure leaves the skin wrinkled, coarse and leathery like the back of a cowboy's neck. In a study directed by Dermatologist John M. Knox of Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, the most noticeable degenerative changes in skin tissues were found to be related not to age but to the areas...
...strange sickness is incurable and not fully understood. Through an inborn metabolic quirk, the body produces an excess of porphyrins, chemicals that are usually produced only in tiny amounts and seem somehow to be involved with the body's sensitivity to the sun. In some forms of porphyria, skin sensitivity is slight, but the victim suffers severe abdominal pains, bizarre mental disturbances, and sometimes respiratory paralysis. Mrs. Carlson suffers from a form called porphyria cutaneatarda, in which the porphyrin overproduction can be traced to an inherited liver malfunction. Doctors have studied such cases for years, but have only recently...
...long confinement indoors and after exposure to the sun. In the people with porphyria, output of porphyrin compounds rose sharply after exposure to the light; the others showed no change. Sunlight, the doctors concluded, increases the concentration of porphyrin in the skin and red blood cells. But how the excess porphyrin does its damage, they still cannot...