Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says, one of the Manhattan dial exchanges (very similar to computers) was overloaded with work. It began to behave queerly, acting with an irrationality that disturbed the company. Flocks of engineers, sent to treat the patient, could find nothing organically wrong. After the war was over, the work load decreased. The ailing exchange recovered and is now entirely normal. Its trouble had been "functional": like other hard-driven war workers, it had suffered a nervous breakdown...
...Administration offers two reasons for its action. The first is the claim that most rooms in the college are overcrowded. On these grounds, it was decided that the load should be cased for everyone; freshmen are to be moved into Wigglesworth, sophomores are to be moved from Wigglesworth into the outside dormitories (Dudley, Apley, Claverly), some students are to be admitted from these dormitories into the Houses, and many rooms in the Houses are to be deconverted. The exact proportions of these reductions have not been released...
...ease the financial load, Trujillo was willing to endure the displeasure of the U.S. State Department (TIME, Dec. 26) and the criticism of the Organization of American States. Last week, under the indignant prodding of Cuban Ambassador Gonzalo Giiell, the five-man Inter-American Peace Commission finally got off a letter to Trujillo expressing "grave concern" and pointing out that the O.A.S. had machinery to settle quarrels between states. At week's end Trujillo sent a tart rejoinder: "The Dominican Republic, a victim of aggression, is anxious to study the problem with other American states...