Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find that these supposedly crack units needed nearly five months to reach combat status. He discovered that the Guard had 95 antiaircraft companies armed with old-line 90-mm. guns that were useless against supersonic jet aircraft. And he found that the Guard was loaded down with such excess baggage as laundry companies, bath units, public relations men and special service companies to entertain the troops...
Focusing popular attention on the 30,000 deaths from lung cancer each year, said Dr. Hammond, has obscured the more deadly fact that four times as many "excess'' fatalities among cigarette addicts are due to a long and tangled chain of events. Between puffs on his pipe, he reported that deeply inhaled cigarette smoke sends a threat of pre mature death spreading through the lungs, arteries and the heart itself...
...More Fats. In those first few frustrating months on the pro tour, making money but not winning, Nicklaus patiently retooled his game, aiming for the kind of versatility that would allow him to play under any conditions, on any kind of course. He worked off the 25 excess pounds that had his fellow pros calling him "Ohio Fats" (in college, his nicknames were "Blob-O" and "Whaleman." He also had to learn to adjust to the nomadic life of a pro: until last week, when he decided to take a few days off and fish for trout, Jack had been...
...start with a healthy heart," said Boston's Dr. Paul Dudley White, 76, elder statesman of cardiology, "physical labor or exercise apparently helps to keep it healthy. There is no evidence, that mental work per se causes heart disease, although in excess it may lead to neglect of proper health habits, and thus perhaps favor the early development of heart disease. The best antidote for the harmful effects of intensive mental work is vigorous physical labor or exercise...
...Which prohibits interstate shipment of oil pumped in excess of state production quotas...