Word: overstrain
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Last week, harassed by circumstance, chivied by Opposition critics and harried by rebellion within his own party and even his own Cabinet, Britain's 59-year-old Prime Minister Anthony Eden succumbed to "overstrain" and was ordered off the political stage to a weeks-long rest...
...Prime Minister's place in Commons. Otherwise, he and Macmillan were to act jointly. Thus there would be no acting Prime Minister with full powers in Eden's absence. At 11:45 p.m. the statement was issued that Eden was "suffering from the effects of overstrain," and was canceling all public engagements. "He's just tired," explained Lady Eden in a speech next day. "During these past few weeks, I have felt as though the Suez Canal was flowing through our drawing room. He is anxious to get this enforced rest over as quickly as possible...
Most U.S. executives, particularly since the President's heart attack, are uneasily aware of the mental and physical effects of overstrain. However, when they think of relaxation, the majority think in terms of strenuous, competitive recreation, such as golf. But the trouble with such sports is that businessmen tend to overexert and fret over their performance. And in recent years the golf course has become a kind of office with trees, where businessmen are as intent on arranging ways of raising their incomes as on lowering their scores. Says Norman Livermore Jr., California lumber-firm executive and onetime athlete...
...Leon Cortes Castro has fought totalitarianism bitterly. Overstrain fighting such organizations killed...
...because their blood vessels and hearts are tough enough to stand the strain. Hypertension becomes dangerous only when it results in sclerosis (scarring) of the arteries or arterioles (small branches of the arteries). Eventually this scarring may close some of the small blood vessels, cut off blood supply, overstrain the heart, lead to a brain stroke or coronary thrombosis...