Word: overladenness
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...book does not so much define Montaigne as scramble him. It is as if someone given nothing but the picture of an assembled car and its disassembled parts had set to work, knowing only that each part has to go somewhere. The result is a book that is repetitious, overladen with extraneous scholarship, and stuffed with names cited without explanation...
Aragon's story follows the fleeing King, and it often bogs down in its crowd of characters like one of the King's overladen carriages, choked with anxious courtiers. Not even Aragon's hero, a musketeer who dotes on his horse and his fancy uniform, matters much. The scenes are the thing-scenes of moiling confusion and moral disintegration, observed with the sharp eye and tongue of a poet who was a soldier at Dunkirk and returned from England to fight until he was captured on the day before the fall of France...
...peasants, fearful of Communist guerrillas lurking in the hills, often go to market by sea. Last week 300 or 400 peasants, bound for hungry Pusan, squeezed aboard the 146-ton steamer Chang Kyong Ho (Prosperous Joy) cramming its hold with 400 sacks of rice. Off the Korean coast, the overladen Prosperous Joy encountered mountainous seas; a crashing wall of water cascaded into the hold, and the ancient vessel sank. Seven passengers, including the captain, swam to safety; the rest (perhaps 350) went to the bottom with the ship...
...this huge and hugely complicated bomber, Boeing did away with a frequent source of pilot's gripe-an overladen instrument panel. The pilot and copilot have before them only the instruments necessary for taking off, flying and landing. The crew of eleven includes a flight engineer who has a big instrument panel of his own, and whose job is to keep track of engine performance. Since long-range flights mean long, fatiguing hours in the air, the ship carries chairs cushioned with sponge rubber and bunks in which unoccupied crew members may rest. The cabin is sound-insulated...
Brady and I were taken aboard a comparatively empty lifeboat which, even so, was overladen. I didn't realize how cold I was until I tried to talk and found that my jaws were stiff. There were a. number of Lascar seamen on board; they crouched on the bottom of the boat paralysed with cold and fear. Poor devils, they longed for the sun of Bengal; it wasn't their war anyway...