Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stopped without fear of damage to his brain, the surgeons opened both his aorta and his heart. Through a slit in the aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until its head plugged the blowout. After trimming off excess stem, they sewed the plug in place. Then they stitched up the incisions, closed Hickey's chest and let him thaw...
...spate of stories touting Democratic chances in November. Some market .analysts raised the specter of a bear market, but most of the pros said no. Said Benton & Co.'s Albert Tompane, a leading U.S. Steel stock specialist: "Money has been tight all summer. People haven't got excess funds. The bull market is leveling off, but we're not in a bear market, and the economy is as sound as ever." To Paine, Webber's Luttrell Maclin. the "election of the Democrats would not be catastrophic, or even necessarily bearish." His explanation of the slide...
...only Miss Radcliffe available for comment, has denied that her title subjected her to "many additional responsibilities and activities"--a charge made on the contest in this year's letter to Radcliffe freshmen from Student Government Association president Karen A. Goukassow '57. The "additional responsibilities" presumably refer to excess phone calls from date-seekers and excessive time spent in modeling for stores in the area...
...CITY will be built on last big block of undeveloped land in Los Angeles metropolitan area. For sum in "excess of $10 million," Transamerica Corp. and Christiana Oil Corp. (headed by former U.S. Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas) have bought 8,000-acre Diamond Bar Ranch near Pomona, only 20 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Plan is for community of 100,000, with shopping centers, schools, churches, 30,000 homes in $15,000-to-$40,000 price range...
Frederic Warriner's touching and gentle Androcles stays always above the merely coy and cute and manges to avoid any hint of the sentimental excess into which the character might fall in less capable hands. The Ferrovius of Robert Evans is wonderfully full and strong, yet fully cognizant of the weakness forced upon him by an overactive conscience. The Christian Lavinia, blown first this way and then that by her emotions, is given stature and grace by Laurinda Barrett, in a performance notable for the clarity of its projection of constantly shifting moods and attitudes. Of the others, Louis Edmonds...