Word: overstrained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Office had apparently fumbled commanders again. In the fusty voice of an "official spokesman." London announced last week that Lieut. General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, Commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, had suffered a "serious overstrain," had been replaced by Major General Neil Methuen Ritchie eight days after Britain's Libyan offensive was launched. This may have been an admission that General Cunningham's battle tactics* had failed. It was providing history with a scapegoat for the immediate failure of the British forces to clean the Axis from Libya...