Word: overworking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after a month's absence, newsmen who have been seeing him once or twice a week for eleven years were struck by the realization that Franklin Roosevelt at 62 is an old man. His health, it appeared, was going to be all right now-provided he does not overwork. For one thing, announced Secretary Steve Early, he will no longer entertain business visitors at lunch...
...Death by Overwork. At Cabanatuan Camp, to which most American soldiers were removed after two months, conditions were no better. Prisoners were put to work on roads; those who faltered even for a moment were beaten and clubbed by their guards. Sometimes as many as 75% of a work detail failed to return to camp. Disease touched everyone: beri beri, dysentery, diarrhea, malaria, scurvy, blindness, diphtheria, jaundice and dengue fever. Those who attempted to escape were beaten, kicked and jumped on, then tied to posts in the open sun for two days before being beheaded or shot...
Marvin H. Mclntyre, White House secretary for the last ten years, spent his 65th birthday confined to his house, after several weeks' recuperation from overwork...
...morning in 1895 Secretary Ponsonby also collapsed (of overwork), died ten months later. "Dear kind Sir Henry," his Royal Taskmistress wrote, "so universally beloved ... so kind and so fair and just...
Tojo and his home propagandists had their own reasons for presenting to the Japanese a dark portrait of the war; what they said and did for a calculated effect may have been exaggerated. But the fiber of Japan was certainly strained by grave material shortages, by malnutrition and overwork, by both known and intangible fears, by the absence of new victories. Tojo promised no relief: > All males between 14 and 40 (including students) must either fight or work in war plants. In 25 less essential occupations women will replace men. > All Government agencies, factories and schools which can be moved...