Word: overwork
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...leaving to the testes the duty of producing only the male sex hormones, have been extremely satisfying, as in the case of Dr. Lorenz. The Steinach operation is performed, however, on young men-the potential fathers, heads of families-with great reluctance. In some cases-from sexual excesses, from overwork, from disease-spermatozoa production has fallen off or ceased entirely. In "older" men, usually in those who have reached their sixties, similar falling off or cessation occurs. For such the operation is beneficial. They will pep up, with all the connotations this vulgate word implies...
...which they were most needed at given times. Judge Olson's records and audits showed that the law's delays were thus greatly reduced in Chicago. It was simply a matter of an executive's being responsible for the direction of a judicial force to eliminate idleness here and overwork there...
...press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor. From overwork he almost broke down. Then the American Medical Association and other regular societies pitched on him, lambasted him, almost kept him from getting his license to practice in New York. Already, in 1902, Illinois had permitted him to practice...
Architect Warren scoffed at the idea of Clémenceau as an enfeebled old man: "The newspapers are always trying to write obituaries of really great men before their deaths. Who has not heard rumors that Mussolini is a pale spectre of himself, burnt out by overwork? I visited him three weeks ago in Rome, and found him not at all the feeble man tottering into the grave that I had been led to expect. . . . He looks fit, mentally and physically...
...little red cottages by a bleak northern lake and coughed into their handkerchiefs. Then, almost well again, and mocked by the irony of the disease that increases a man's keenness for living while depriving him of life, he bought a part interest in the Boston Braves. Overwork weakened him; he caught a cold; returned to his lake...