Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needed efforts to clarify issues and points of law. As his reason for retiring. Whittaker cited "physical exhaustion from the great volume and continuous stresses of the court's work." Friends reported that Whittaker, at 61 the third youngest member of the court, had broken down from the strain of conscientiousness. "He brooded and tormented himself over decisions." said one federal official...
...minority of the National Assembly raged against the ceasefire. Right-wing Deputies stood to attention while one of their number orated that "abandonment" of Algeria was an illegal act. Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, showing the strain of the long negotiations at Evian. assured the chamber that the nationality of those Algerian residents who wanted to remain French citizens would be protected. Pied-noir Deputies from Algeria tried to howl him down, and chanted. "Treason! Treason! Treason...
...roses. How can a rose be a rose unless it smells like a rose?" Burpee, which sold 50 million packages of seeds last year and mailed 3,.000,000 catalogues for winter-bound gardeners to pore over, is featuring a 50? packet of seeds guaranteed to produce a new strain of zinnias called Red Man that will look like crimson dahlias...
...Prince Andrew, "on being able at last to leave his bird shooting at Sandringham and rejoin his wife at this exciting moment of her life." Last January he announced acidly that "Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon leave for a holiday in the West Indies to recover from the strain of their almost workless year...
Lover Come Back. Gagman Stanley Shapiro has written a situation comedy as smooth as baby food, and Director Delbert Mann manages to strain some humor out of Rock Hudson and Doris...