Word: overtax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rival drivers, Petty is known as a "charger," who likes to blast ahead, full-bore, from the start of a race, hoping opponents will overtax their engines trying to catch him. He is also an innovator; he invented the dangerous art of "drafting"-keeping his car practically on top of an opponent's rear bumper, using the partial vacuum created by the other car as a tow, thus conserving his own engine and fuel. Unlike many drivers, who make a fetish of braking and shifting at precisely the same points each time around a track. Petty varies his routine...
...nothing more strenuous all spring than play a round of golf-and it was a good bet that neither would be ready to pitch nine innings before the season was two weeks old. "Our main concern," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston, "is to make sure they don't overtax their arms and injure them." Naturally, at those prices...
...actually repair its own damaged cells and lost tissue. The Anglo-Saxon often attributes liver ailments to malnutrition, a fate to which the liver is not conspicuously subject in France, where every foodstuff is weighed for its effect on the foie. In the age-old belief that eggs overtax young livers, the average French parent would sooner poach a hare than an egg for the children. Chocolate, butter and cream are as suspect as they are essential to French cuisine. The French even treat their dogs and cats for crises de foie...
...buildings have been built over so many protests. Esthetes argued that it would ruin the view down Park Avenue (it does). Commuters were fearful that it would overtax already swarming Grand Central Station. Argued Yale Professor Vincent Scully: "Except for brute expediency, it shouldn't be there at all." It was suggested that the site be used for a park instead. Wolfson agreed, but added conclusively: ''Who can afford to dedicate a $20 million plot to a park...