Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both men & women, the death rate goes up in proportion to excess weight...
...stepping-up of other munitions schedules to provide "a sizable reserve of weapons, considerably in excess of our own troop requirements...
...month on gas before the units were installed, is now spending only $300. Said Uhleen: "We're getting so much heat out of them that we're throwing a lot of it away. We plan to heat the whole plant with part of the excess...
Whatever the cause of excess weight, says Dr. Jolliffe, the only way to take it off is by cutting down the intake of calories for a while below the body's actual needs, so that stored fat will be burned. When the ideal weight is reached, intake and consumption of fuel can be equalized. The main thing, he insists, is for the dieter to realize that his appestat has been set too high and has to be set lower...
...Britain's Philosopher Bertrand Russell reached 80 this week, the New York Times asked the usual question, got a variation of the usual answer: "I have, I suppose, lived a wholesome life, avoiding every kind of excess and taking abundant exercise. Until the age of 42 I was a teetotaler. But for the last sixty years I have smoked incessantly, stopping only to eat and sleep . . . I have never, except when I was ill, done anything on the ground that it was good for health. I eat what I like and don't eat what...