Word: overworks
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Marvin H. Mclntyre, White House secretary for the last ten years, spent his 65th birthday confined to his house, after several weeks' recuperation from overwork...
...morning in 1895 Secretary Ponsonby also collapsed (of overwork), died ten months later. "Dear kind Sir Henry," his Royal Taskmistress wrote, "so universally beloved ... so kind and so fair and just...
Tojo and his home propagandists had their own reasons for presenting to the Japanese a dark portrait of the war; what they said and did for a calculated effect may have been exaggerated. But the fiber of Japan was certainly strained by grave material shortages, by malnutrition and overwork, by both known and intangible fears, by the absence of new victories. Tojo promised no relief: > All males between 14 and 40 (including students) must either fight or work in war plants. In 25 less essential occupations women will replace men. > All Government agencies, factories and schools which can be moved...
...Life. Never high, Russia's living standards today touch rock bottom. Hunger and overwork are bad enough. But the Russian has also to cope with shortages of nearly every item of daily use, from frying pans to buttons and pencils...
...just as the press does. Not only is Ingrid Bergman without an enemy in the whole community: people like the way she works, too. If she muffs a line, her apology is so obviously sincere that there is not a man or woman on the set who would not overwork to please...