Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weakened strain of Type III poliovirus developed by the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin had always been accused by some virologists of occasionally reverting to a dangerous form after multiplying in human vaccinees. and the PHS had delayed its approval for many months until last March. Since then, an estimated 13 million Americans have taken it, many of them in mass "SOS" (Sabin Oral Sunday) campaigns such as the one held in Cleveland last June (TIME, July 6). Up to 5,000,000 of those who took Type III were adults...
...farmers: their hands are soft, their faces are citified, their bodies are city-fed. And the farm is obviously not a working farm: the Japanese peasant is notoriously clean, but this island is so clean that even a fly would starve. Esthetically, too, the film is not natural. It strains for greatness in every frame-the strain shows but the greatness doesn't. Even so, The Island is an impressive work of artifice, surely one of the best movies ever made for less than $20,000. Purists will praise Director Kaneto Shindo (Children of Hiroshima) for his skill...
...coldly and emphatically repeated by leaders of the Commonwealth nations as they gathered in a chandeliered room at Marlborough House to review Britain's bid for membership in the European Common Market. One after another, Britain's Commonwealth partners declared that, by joining Europe, Britain will gravely strain their economic ties to the mother country and may finally sunder the enduring links of sentiment and mutual self-interest that bind together one-quarter of the world's people...
...country is under considerable and mounting strain...
...Wimbledon with such astonishing ferocity that Martin Mulligan, another countryman whom he dispatched in barely 53 minutes, gasped: "I must have offended him." By the time he got to Forest Hills, says Laver, "I was so nervous I could hear my knees knocking all right, and the strain may have affected my game a little." If it did, he was the only one who noticed it. He breezed through his six preliminary matches with the loss of only one set. In the finals, he ran away with the first two sets 6-2 and 6-4, then grew momentarily careless...