Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dance of the drifting blips was impressive proof that the problem of long-range aircraft navigation has yet to be licked. The most spectacular new guidance systems still strain to keep up with the swiftest new planes...
...this indeed signaled a "standstill" in Berlin, it meant, at best, that the West was postponing a crisis that Moscow can reopen at any time. Moscow might be agreeable, since continued uncertainty would be a serious strain on West Berlin's morale. Dean Rusk was aware of this. But he was apparently determined to find a device that would permit both sides to back away from a crisis that had moved too close to flashpoint...
...continued without interruption since the Santa Maria." He prophesied that 1962 "will mark the end of Salazar." The aging (72) dictator himself last week made one of his rare appearances before Parliament to deliver a speech, but an aide had to read it for him; in moments of strain, Salazar is apt to lose his voice, and after 33 years in power, the strain was beginning to tell on the world's senior dictator...
...restlessness worsening along with his press notices (latest from London's Sunday Express: "Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon leave for a holiday in the West Indies to recover from the strain of their almost workless year"), ex-Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones signed on with London's Sunday Times as "artistic adviser" and occasional cameraman-at an undisclosed salary. Insisted his new editor: "It is a real job of work...
Murder in the Cathedral will reopen tonight in St. John's Chapel, in spite of an incongruous order yesterday from the Cambridge police that publicity material affixed to telephone poles must be removed immediately to improve Cambridge's appearance. Said director Richard Corum '62, "We will strain every nerve to comply with city regulations. We ourselves find flyers odious...