Word: overworks
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Tired from overwork and wary of hard-driving Director Wyler, Pidgeon agreed to play Mr. Miniver, with reservations. Before starting he sat on the set for a few days, watched Wyler shoot one apparently perfect take after another. "But on the 18th take," says Pidgeon, "I suddenly knew about Wyler. It was perfect, but it hit you in the pit of the stomach like a sudden, perfect chord of music. It made all those perfect-looking previous takes look like hell." When the picture was finished, he said: "I left the screening of Miniver trying to remember which...
...more trouble throwing them off. But he still kept his weight down to 186, could still cast off his burdens and get a night's sound sleep; he could still laugh. If he could get away to Warm Springs for a brief rest after a winter's overwork, he would rebound quickly...
...says the Department of Labor, is about one-half of a man's, her pulling strength two-thirds. But she is superior to man in dexterity and patience. Women are peculiarly susceptible to certain chemical poisons; they are also more vulnerable than men to sickness and accidents from overwork. Protective laws got their impetus from overwork in World War I. But it was War I which emancipated them. From 1914 to 1918 the proportion of women workers in war industries more than doubled, from 65 per 1,000 wage earners to 139. Once in, they remained; in the same...
Where, O Where? The purpose of the work, the overwork, the exasperation of hammering the wrong-sized rivets, was made no clearer as long as the big question remained: "Where is the Fleet...
...well aware of U.A.W.'s key position is John L. Lewis. While C.I.O. President Philip Murray lay convalescing from overwork and nervous exhaustion, John Lewis moved in on U.A.W. with the stealth of an elephant crashing through a cane brake...