Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy of often making a girl move into the infirmary whether she herself wants to or not. The Center's policy on this has been that the place for a girl with a communicable virus is not in a dormitory, and that Radcliffe girls have a tendency to overwork themselves anyway...
...Prudential Insurance Co. "industrial" agents walked out in the first major strike of U.S. insurance agents and the biggest "whitecollar" strike in U.S. labor history. The strikers, whose work included selling and collecting premiums on industrial policies (i.e., insurance paid for in small weekly or monthly installments), complained of overwork and underpay. During the strike, they threw as many as 1,000 pickets around the company's Newark (N.J.) headquarters...
...public faints (caused by an inadequate supply of blood to the brain) are the result of his excitability, coupled with his low blood pressure and habitual overwork. Says Gholam Mossadeq: "My father is not really ill-just nervous and tired from too much work. In Teheran he works from 6 in the morning until n at night...
With his U.N. task (and Manhattan rest cure) at an end, Premier Mossadeq plans to head back to Teheran and overwork this week...
...Simone Weil perhaps a saint? She practiced the kind of self-denial that the world has often recognized as saintly. A wartime refugee in Britain, she virtually starved herself to death at 34 because, though exhausted from overwork, she would not eat more than the ration in occupied France. But what are Christians to make of Simone Weil's attitude toward the church? The Dominican priest who was her spiritual adviser is sure that, had she lived, she would have accepted baptism. Simone Weil doubted it. A brilliant intellectual who found God after wading through agnosticism and Marxism...