Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with tined implements in their pockets were thought effeminate by their deft-fingered fathers. When spoons did become common tableware, they had elongated bowls, less suitable for chopping food than balancing tiny reservoirs of soup. Still, as talismans of gentle birth, Apostle spoons were an exquisite beginning to a surfeit of flatware, which, by 1911, yielded services of 138 individual pieces per place setting, from pea spoons to asparagus tongs...
...poor Kito's. But since no one can really agree on the identity of anyone else, it is difficult to discover who, if anyone, is dead, much less why. Readers who happen to be avid for the daytime retelling of last night's nightmare will find surfeit in La Maison; others are apt to hurl the book, if it is a book, at the wall...
...Trios were delightful, and in the recapitulations the Minuet overcame its initial rhythmic weakness. The last repetition was almost perfect, and thus served as a final reminder that the performance was a solid one, marred only by the unfortunate surfeit of strings...
Hard-top highways, built with U.S. aid and thick with speeding new cars and gaily painted trucks, reach out into the countryside to draw off the surfeit of Thailand's bounty for world markets. Trains of wooden barges riding low in Bangkok's muddy Chao Phraya River carry rice, corn, copra, reams of incomparable Thai silk, jute-and illicit opium-to export. With the Thai annual growth rate of 7% a year, the baht (formerly called the tical and still worth a nickel), backed by gold and foreign-exchange reserves of nearly $650 million, is one of Asia...
...many ways in which the broken chemical chain can lead to brain damage. If the reaction "A goes to B" breaks down, the brain may be affected by the accumulation of A in the bloodstream, or the lack of B, or by some chemical which is produced by the surfeit of A. It is believed that in this particular case, the acid itself causes brain damage...