Word: overweighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McNamara dismissed as ridiculous the argument that this move would overweight the power of military in society. The extra training, he said, would require slightly more funds than the regular program. But there should be no danger of "diluting" the strength of the military and the benefits will be well worth the cost: "I wouldn't be surprised," he said, "if we would increase the life-time earnings of these people two or three times...
GEORGY GIRL. In an ordinary British comedy, Lynn Redgrave (daughter of Sir Michael, sister of Vanessa) displays extraordinary zest as an overweight, forlorn young creature who dreams only of romance and motherhood. Instead, she finds the path to matrimony an obstacle course of tragicomic misadventures, middle-aged satyrs, and a modish menage a trois...
McNamara dismissed the argument that using the Army for such rehabilitation might overweight the importance of the military in American society. "We don't make any effort to militarize a civilian" while he is in uniform, he said...
...Mount Vernon, Me., in 1934, followed up in 1947 with a second in Phoenix. Described as "magic isles where cares and worries vanish," they prescribed a regimen of exercise, treatment, swimming and riding, all on an austere diet that ruled out fatty foods and liquor if the customer was overweight. Fees at Maine Chance have always been high (currently, $750 to $800 a week), and the clientele has included Mrs. Clark Gable, Mrs. John Foster Dulles, Ava Gardner, Edna Ferber, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Gwen Cafritz, Perle Mesta, Clare Boothe Luce, Mamie Eisenhower, and Bea Lillie (who came...
Neurosis has become glamorous. Movie Critic Pauline Kael speaks of "the nervous breakdowns, miscarriages, overweight problems, husband troubles, and all those mental and physical ills which now comprise the image of a great star. In the frivolous, absurd old days, stars were photographed in their bubble baths; now they bathe in tears of self-pity...