Word: overloaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload of fuel, into the blue yonder, westbound for Trinidad as his first landfall. Casually opening his remaining envelope, he made a discomfiting discovery: he had mistakenly left his charts behind, had a choice of burning up his excess fuel and returning to Africa or of navigating with his unpaid bills...
...more of a basic science approach." In another innovation, Annapolis will credit 190 incoming middies this fall for a total of 316 college courses they took before entering the academy. The new students will move straight into advanced classes, later on they may earn the right to take "overload" electives in addition to their normal curriculum. Of this year's middies, 367 are signed up for overload courses, mostly in science (which still outranks the humanities at Annapolis...
Despite this worthy education, the harried U.S. Coast Guard rescue squadrons have more trouble than they can handle, and it gets worse every year. Says one Coast Guard commander wearily: "They run aground, they run into buoys, they run into each other. They overload small boats and they go too fast. If they have enough gas to go eight miles, they'll go eight miles straight out and then have to be brought in." Last year a Coast Guard boat chugged out to rescue a man whose brand-new, 36-ft. cruiser had broken down. The rescuers tossed...
...meeting, two CEP members showed conflicting attitudes towards proposals that tutorials or seminars be given in the Freshman year. Walter J. Bate '39, professor of English, viewed the proposals with skepticism. Citing the "gigantic cost" of House tutorials, he called the suggested Freshman innovations "largely academic." The present work overload on the staffs of popular departments such as English, he claimed, would also make extension of tutorial to Freshmen very difficult...
...tutorials or seminars are added to regular courses, McCloskey stated, they should be tied to course work. Addition of these "extra courses" might overload the schedules of some Freshmen, he said, and might therefore force limiting the program to unusually capable students...