Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last epidemic to hit the United States occurred in 1955. As it had started in the Orient, accurate predictions were possible. Doctors in the United States which strain of the flu virus to expect. This year, there are no epidemics progress and therefore all predictions based larely on statistical probability...
Along with the Italians, the Germans have a film about their own strain of decadence. Rosemary is a common streetwalker who sexes her way to a controlling position in the Wirtschaftswunderland of postwar prosperity...
...comedian is Bob Newhart, who built his reputation on a handful of brilliant monologues. He has now committed himself to The Bob Newhart Show (NBC), which requires as much new material each week as he used to develop in months. Last week's premiére showed the strain, starting with a superb phone monologue and autobiographical sketch ("people thought I was taller than I am, but this is about as big as an accountant will get") and sliding slowly downhill thereafter...
...Great Hamburg Blight--a disease as crippling in its way as the Dutch one that knocks off elms--has long since withered the sickly local strain. Harvard Square burgers are invariably thin and grease-sodden, often gray and crumbling, and occasionally even square in shape; encased in that permanent invalid of the American baking industry, the bun, they are, even so, mechanically consumed in sickening quantities every day. They cost anywhere from 15 cents to 40 cents. And every single one of them is accompanied, like a whale with its pilot fish, by a small, awkward slice of cucumber pickle...
Nevertheless, our problems persisted. The work was hard, the food simple, the language a strain, and the diarrhea a bother. And other problems were more subtle. It was some time before the Americans realized that their quicker response to the dinner bell was grouping them at the table, and the English and French tables for language practice which resulted met with only temporary success...