Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole U.S. was wondering, and so, apparently, were some Russians. "He must have nerves of steel," said Soviet Air Force Colonel B. A. Aristov, who was touring Greece with Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. "I hope he stands the strain. It must be a terrible ordeal...
...have not yet learned the Anglo-Indian's snobbery, and they accept Dr. Aziz's impulsive invitation to visit some local caves. Here the effort of compression undoes the adapter. In the novel, the reader is made to understand that each woman is already under a severe strain. Old Mrs. Moore's is the approach of death and the retreat of God; Miss Quested's is an incomprehension of love. When the heat, the smells, and the frightening echoes turn Mrs. Moore abruptly into a benumbed old sibyl and induce Miss Quested to believe that...
...blurred line between the young man's images of past and present, the strain of his relationships with the people he knows now and those he remembers, that produces tension. With his analyst and employer, each aware of the young man's problem and each professionally involved in the prognosis, he can relax. But he begins to falter at the recognition of the curious parallel between his present landlady and her husband, and his childhood family. Yet the final test comes from the woman who loves him and her young daughter; for he is forced to obliterate once...
...racial purists' illusions of superiority by citing, among others, the case of the "Rehoboth bastards," in which marriage and inbreeding between 18th century Boers and Hottentots resulted, he says, in a new "race" of people who were more successful, in terms of time and place, than either progenitor strain. They still exist, healthy, hardworking and prolific farmers, in Southwest Africa. Naturally enough, the apartheid-minded South Africans call them "colored...
...least one conservative member of the HYRC has cracked under the strain of belonging to an organization that harbors both John Birch YAFers and the publisher of Advance...