Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pugh's heavy drinker is one who drinks "almost daily, regularly to excess, and has gone on a bender of over 24 hours...
...required, are in his keeping. To win votes, he has at his disposal precious Chinese immigration visas to distribute among his congressional colleagues, each of them worth $2,000 to $3,000 at the nearest cafe. When the Commissioner of Customs recently tried to cut expenses by firing 180 excess employees, he was bombarded into retreat by the protests of Congressmen. For importers, heavy tips to customs agents are a necessity. In their eager study of U.S. institutions, Filipino politicos had learned from Hague and Pendergast, as well as from Madison and Jefferson...
...regions most dominated by the Puritan ethic that alcoholic excess appears most pronounced. Where the social group withdraws its approval from drinking, it becomes either a solitary vice or a wickedness covertly shared with a few boon companions. This type of alcoholism is allied not so much to poverty as to conflict within the personality. It is to be found in countries such as the U.S.A. and Sweden, which have experimented in prohibition. These two countries head the list . . . issued by the World Health Organization [last year] as having the highest proportional number of alcoholics-Italy, that great wine-drinking...
...Continent: their annual foreign travel allowance will be decreased to $140 apiece. There will be fewer housing starts; government stockpiling of strategic materials will be slowed down. To counter inflation, Butler plans to reduce the amount of money in circulation-by hiking interest rates, imposing a stiff excess-profits...
Vadis is a triumph of money over matter, a monument to Hollywood's faith in the formula that nothing succeeds like excess. Petronius speaks for Quo Vadis when, discussing the emperor's monstrous arson, he tells Nero: "History need not say that the burning of Rome was good, but it must say that it was colossal...