Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least, these are all his worries until Dr. Andrew Butler, an English anthropologist "with a class of hair like an old nest," puts up at Mangan's Hotel for some rest after a breakdown from overwork on the tribal customs of the Congo. All might have been well had Dr. Butler not written a feature article for the London press. Butler included a description of nuns from the Patrickstown convent jumping over fires on Midsummer Eve and made some unfortunate references to some of the rites of The Golden Bough in connection with these innocent goings...
...quotes. If you spell our names and list our college classes correctly, most of us are content to leave the rest more-or-less up to you. But since the publication of your fascinating article on Freshman Advising our office has been besieged by students pleading thirst and overwork, like so many crosses between Oliver Twist and the Ancient Mariner...
...Worn by overwork and "feeling much below par," Clare Boothe Luce, 53, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, flew home last week for a checkup at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital. Said her physician: "Mrs. Luce is suffering from a chronic enteritis, which appears to be related to an infection of the liver which she had while abroad. She has, as well, a moderately severe iron-deficiency anemia, probably due to the same cause. She received one transfusion . . . and will require others. I have advised the ambassador not to return to her post for about two months. At that time I would...
According to Communist theory, all the forced labor workers are "voluntary," and the cadres supervising the slave labor always use high-sounding, almost loving words, to describe their charges. Those who die of exposure and overwork are eulogized as "dead heroes." On the "mechanized farms" a few Soviet tractors are used, but most of the work is done with primitive plows manned by groups of six pulling on plow ropes. When the slave laborers fail to fulfill their "norms," they are obliged to conduct "selfcriticism" sessions. Risings in these remote camps have been frequent. Mobile units of slave laborers have...
...still says, "My name's Friday. I'm a cop." Last week he was after a confidence man (and caught him, of course, within the prescribed 26^ minutes). The story, like all Dragnet stories, was authentic. It proved that authenticity is something that a discriminating storyteller can overwork...