Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exuberance, Hussein has shown signs of age and strain. "He seems a century older than the boy who became King ten years ago," says a friend. With all those enemies around, the wonder is that he had a chance...
...Roof. Part of the strain, of course, is financial; the checkbook never seems ready for the unexpected demands. The well-in-advance, all-too-legibly-signed Christmas card "from your garbage man" and "your mailman," the armies of elevator operators and invisible attendants that materialize for apartment dwellers, the soaring cost of trees and festivities -this is only part of it. There is the problem of the Rich Relation who sprays the family with costly presents-how much reciprocity is necessary? There is the problem of the Marginal Pal who somewhere along the way has moved from the list...
Pleasing Mother. The other main strain of Christmas is the family. Parents agonize about diappointing their children, about spending more on one than another, about whether the neighbor children will get more or better presents. Grown children worry about their parents. "Selecting a Christmas present for mother is a traumatic experience for a great many people," says an Atlanta psychiatrist. "Is it good enough? Is it the right size? Some older women are chronically critical, and his is a big problem to children trying to please mother." Husbands and wives often get into bitter Christmas wrangles over which parent...
...like rubbing salt in a wound, and the press responded by raising a mighty ruckus. Mark Watson, military reporter for the Baltimore Sun, was reminded of "the policy and performance of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Paul Goebbels." Wrote Joe Alsop in a column careless of any strain it might put on his friendship with the President: "The caves of the policymakers still too strongly resemble mushroom cellars. The danger is airlessness, in other words, and this airlessness can be too easily fatal, unless the caves are regularly ventilated by the winds of national doubt...
This minority has apparently been joined by at least two major departments. More are likely to follow, and it is hard not to see the good sense in their objections. Any major piece of writing, especially writing based on much research, is bound to impose strains that make the writer want, whimsically or fiercely, to abandon it at some point. Surely the thesis is for an undergraduate an extraordinary strain; thesis advisors and Senior Tutors will acknowledge that in more than occasional cases students not forced to finish it would not do so. (That they can finish it without going...