Word: overwork
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...reached the rear supply areas of the U.S. First Army; that Hitler had passed on every major military decision since the start of the war, and that he had ''good intuition." Rundstedt did not doubt that Hitler had died, as represented, on the Berlin barricades-or from overwork. "Der Führer was a brave man," he said. "He proved that in the last...
...pitching stars picked up where they left off. Cincinnati's Ed Heusser showed off his lowest earned-run average (2.38) in the National League by shutting out Pittsburgh; Detroit's Dizzy Trout won twice in six days, proving that his right arm was not burned out from overwork (he labored 352 innings last year, won 27 games); Trout's pitching partner, Lefty Hal Newhouser, lost-his first, came right back to beat Cleveland, 3-to-2 in 11 innings...
...apoplexy) rarely strikes a person with normal, healthy arteries; a normal blood vessel can stand 14 times the ordinary blood pressure without bursting. The artery that burst in the President's head was presumably hardened and thickened by arteriosclerosis, which may be caused by old age, infection, overwork, worry, overexertion. A mere sneeze may raise blood pressure enough to rupture such a vessel...
...present Mrs. Hopkins is credited by his friends with slowing down his tempo considerably, putting him on a sane regimen, and keeping him from overwork. It was not always so. In the days immediately after Pearl Harbor, when Hopkins was working 18 hours a day, one of his male friends once counseled: "Cut it out, Harry, you'll kill yourself." Harry, who is no man to overlook a little quiet drama, looked up over his shell-rimmed glasses and replied: "Do you know a better...
...President, addressing the Congress (see The Presidency), added some other facts: "More than a thousand [Army] nurses are now hospitalized and part of this is due to overwork. . . . 280,000 registered nurses are now practicing in this country . . . 27,000 additional nurses could be made available to the armed forces without interfering too seriously with the needs of the civilian population." Mr. Roosevelt's proposal: draft nurses...