Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's East End. was an active member of half a dozen organizations, conducted his bus full time, and seldom saw his wife and children. It took him almost two decades to decide that he was acting like a "demented lunatic." Meanwhile, he wore his exhaustion from overwork proudly, like battle scars or a medal...
...fluty voice and in her personality -the curious way she had of tossing her head or motioning imploringly to the audience. Through the tumult of her success, she remained as elusive as Tinker Bell. She had few close friends, was rarely seen in public off stage. At one time, overwork broke her health, and she found rest in a Roman Catholic convent in France (she was a nondenominational Christian). She lived there in a white-walled, cell-like room, which she later had reproduced in her own palatial Long Island home...
Late last week Dwight Eisenhower set out for a couple of days of relative relaxation at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. The weekend had scarcely begun when news arrived that physical strain resulting from overwork had forced Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (78) to postpone indefinitely plans for a Bermuda meeting with Ike and French Premier Joseph Laniel (see FOREIGN NEWS). President Eisenhower promptly sent off a sympathetic letter to the British Prime Minister. Wrote the President: "I look upon this as only a temporary deferment of our meeting. Your health...
...typical of the narrow attitude of top medical brass hierarchy in the armed forces. The majority of American doctors & dentists are not interested in military medicine . . . The thing that makes military medicine revolting to most doctors is not the hardships of service or the burden of overwork in the professional aspects of medicine, but red tape, confusion, idleness, waste of talents, boredom and paper work...
...Feller attributed his death partly to "fatigue and overwork...