Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Conductors of symphony orchestras are not the only musicians complaining about hectic schedules and overwork these days. Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck has abandoned his quartet. After 16 years spent in demonstrating that jazz can be for the mind as well as the emotions, Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) decided to cut down on performing and devote more time to composing. Last week he sat in the Wilton, Conn., glass-and-stone house that he built four years ago, tinkering with final revisions on the first fruits of his lei sure-a 63-minute oratorio, The Light in the Wilderness...
...week later he goes over the hill. Quickly trapped, he remains indomitable, escaping again and again-only to be caught each time. By now he has become almost a legend to the prisoners, who vicariously enjoy his flings at freedom. But when the jailers beat and overwork Luke until he grovels at their feet for mercy, the inmates turn their backs on him. Luke, played by Newman with his customary cocky resilience, has one more race up his sleeve, steals a truck when the guards casually turn their backs on him, and zooms off. Chain Gang showed Paul Man failing...
...overwork that laid Dr. Page low. It was not even stress, as commonly understood. It was, as he now acknowledges, what other cardiologists at San Francisco defined as a "Type A" personality-characterized by the drive and competitiveness that compels some to take on more tasks than they should ("Type B" types take things much more easily). Dr. Page had previously paid little attention to the relation between personality and heart disease. Now he recognizes that there was a Type A factor in his own attack...