Word: overloadings
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...tolerance for alcohol, at least until the passing-out stage. I thought I could hold my liquor pretty well. Now I think it means that my body was being less dutiful than most in handling overdoses of a hazardous chemical. (Years later, when only a couple of drinks would overload my toxified liver, causing slurring of words and other drunken symptoms, I finally joined the company of those who "can't hold a drink...
...kiln. He drove slowly to keep his tires from overheating under the heavy load. Ray is a careful man. He cuts carefully, loads carefully and carefully tots expenses. "It takes two-days work to pay for one blowed tire." And he blows them often, because he has to overload the truck to make the 60-mile round trip from home to woods to kiln pay. His chain saw cost $500, and he can only run it a few years before it needs replacing. He has just had to overhaul his truck's engine; that cost $1,400. "And anymore...
...Great Accumulator" by his former colleague and co-author Bob Woodward (The Brethren). Armstrong, 41, who worked for the Senate Watergate Committee before joining the Post, began collecting documents by the carload in 1982 for a book about U.S. foreign policy. When his Post computer showed signs of overload, Armstrong created a place where Government documents like his could be stored and shared: a kind of national-security Nexis...
...lame attempt to satirize Dirty Harry-type heroes. CBS's Designing Women features a quartet of single friends in Atlanta who run a decorating business together, a sort of pre-mid-life Golden Girls. The show has a good cast (including Annie Potts and Dixie Carter) but an overload of formula gag writing ("Suzanne, if sex were fast food, there'd be an arch over your...
...heard in city government. Setting an example for public employees, San Antonio's Democratic mayor, Henry Cisneros, underwent urinalysis, prompting one suggestion for a new sign for hizzoner's desk: THE JAR STOPS HERE. While Cisneros tested negative, City Councilman Ed Harrington flunked his urinalysis: the test revealed caffeine overload, and Harrington subsequently confessed to a ten-cup-a-day coffee habit...