Word: overstraining
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Menu planning is a long, involved task, starting as much as two months before the meal is served. Proposed menus must receive the approval of the director of the Department, and must be planned so as not to overstrain the production facilities. Baked potatoes and roast pork, will not usually be served together, since the various kitchens simply do not have sufficient oven capacity for such a load...
When Nathan Louis Gordon, 73, died of heart disease during one of Los Angeles' bouts with low-descending smog, Dr. Peter Veger stated on the certificate that the smog was "a significant condition contributing to death." (The connection: difficulty in breathing may overstrain a weakened heart.) Snapped County Coroner Theodore J. Curphey: "Los Angeles smog is not a disease. We would be opening the gates to litigation against the Board of Supervisors if we accepted such a certificate...
When news of Norman's death reached Ottawa, Mike Pearson rose in the House of Commons to pronounce an epitaph: "All his actions served only to confirm and strengthen my faith in and my admiration for him. The combined effect of overwork, overstrain, and the feeling of renewed persecution on a sensitive mind and a not very robust body produced a nervous collapse." But Pearson refused to send a new official protest to Washington: "There is no point in making an international issue of this...
Even before Eden's health collapsed under "severe overstrain" and he flew to Jamaica for three weeks' rest, the talk in St. James's political clubs had been on the choice of the man who should succeed Eden. Eden, fully aware of the talk, was ready to go as soon as the succession was settled...
...Outright Inflation." Bill Martin replied quietly, lucidly, in a prepared statement. The job of the Federal Reserve Board, said he, is "to determine the volume of credit that needs to be made available in order to keep the economy running in high gear-but without overstrain. Too much credit would intensify upward pressures on prices. Too little could needlessly starve some activities . . . Creating more money will not create more goods. It can only intensify demands for the current supply of labor and materials. That is outright inflation." No sooner had Martin finished his statement than the politically potent questions began...