Word: overloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the state took over the welfare system last July, it took most of the most-experienced social workers with it. As a result Cambridge has only a few workers to process thousands of bills which were incurred before July. The resultant overload of work is the reason for the long delays expected before the backlog is cleared...
...Indeed, Laugh-In's attack has touches of the late Ernie Kovacs, smatterings of early Sid Caesar and Steve Allen, and a-pie-in-the-face splat or two of Soupy Sales. But on Laugh-In, the calculated aim is to create a state of sensory overload, a condition that audiences nowadays seem to want or need. Blackouts, slapstick, instant skits pinwheel before the eyes; chatter and sound effects collide in the ear. Other TV variety shows can be dropped intact onto a theater or nightclub stage, but Laugh-In would be impossible anywhere but on television...
...owners were drafted for emergency duty hauling food supplies to supermarkets mobbed by panic buyers. Tourists, warned by their governments to get out of the Middle East, scuffled with one another for seats on outgoing flights, and airlines rushed in extra planes to try to handle the overload. In Cairo, U.S. Ambassador Richard Nolte ordered the "temporary departure" of 400 embassy wives and children...
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...ANTIGEN OVERLOADING. Though there are at least two major types of antibody represented by billions of particles, they can be either confused or exhausted if the invading particles of foreign antigen (antibody-triggering substances) are numerous enough. In the medical equivalent of a massive military diversion, doctors try to overload the immune mechanism temporarily by flooding it with antigen particles. By coincidence, an antigen sufficiently similar to the human type is in some streptococci. So these bacteria, usually rated as harmful, are being mass-produced in a program backed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The antigen...