Word: overtaxed
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...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...
...drive for high grades, to obtain draft deferment, has sent more men to the book stacks. These trends combine with a general tightening of the curriculum--one professor says the work required of college students here today is just twice what it was twenty-five years ago--to overtax the libraries...
Ignoring all advice that he must not overtax his strength, Pius XII had written the long message in his own hand...
Withdrawal from board, furthermore, does not entail book work that will string up Lehman Hall with red tape or overtax IBM machines. If the dining halls do not charge every undergraduate for the meals served before the term's open, it is inconsistent to bill everyone for the days after the term's end. Such compulsion is wrong; dining hall officials should lose no time in setting the matter right...