Word: overworking
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...many illnesses are unpredictable, and these can be disastrous. Construction Worker Roland Snyder, 36, a bachelor who lives with his mother in Maryland Heights, Mo., thought that his weight loss and headaches were the result merely of overwork until doctors hospitalized him and learned that he had tuberculous spinal meningitis. The first 13 weeks of treatment cost $13,000. After another five months in a free public hospital, he was moved to a nursing home. His and his mother's insurance benefits were soon exhausted, along with their savings of $1,500. Snyder is now home once more...
Training Effect. Cooper was appalled by the number of presumably fit young airmen who rated "poor," and has since become convinced that only one American in five can be considered truly fit. The remedy, he decided, is sustained muscular work-and indeed overwork-to produce a "training effect." The cardinal requirement of aerobic exercise is that it must tax the person's capacity to the point where he is breathing hard and his heart is pounding at 130 beats per minute or more. Cooper grades exercises according to how fast they induce the training effect and increase oxygen...
Representative H. James Shea (D,-Newton), who pioneered the landmark bill in the State Legislature challenging the constitutionality of the Vietnam War, took his own life early Saturday morning because of his reported overwork and despair with the continuing conflict in Indochina...
...dramatize their overwork and the limitations of radar tracking equipment no longer able to cope with the crowded sky, the newly unionized controllers began to play the game according to the book. They invoked long-avoided regulations requiring at least a three-mile separation between planes for safety (in recent months, aircraft had been allowed as close as two miles). One proposal to ease the jam included a temporary shutdown of 335 FAA-manned flight service stations and transfer of their 900 controllers to busier towers...
BRECHT: You do overwork the exclamation a bit, Henry...