Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lewis tried just that, but found that merely keeping the capsule afloat put too much strain on the engine...
...there that the television debates would be a pushover: "The Vice President offered the observation that he thought it a poor performance, way over people's heads, too fast. He could take this man on TV-so he felt ... He could not foresee what time, illness and strain would do to his own image on such a screen in the fall...
Until the virus came along, the President's month-old lumbosacral strain was, by official accounts, coming along fine. After a couple of days of rest at Middleburg, the President hopped about on his crutches with decreasing evidence of pain. Although Kennedy had twice recently reinjured his back-once by tilting too far back in his black leather swivel chair, another time by leaning too hastily over his desk to sign some letters-Dr. Travell said that her patient would soon be off his crutches. Just the same, Kennedy canceled a trip to the Governors' Conference in Hawaii...
While Secretary Dillon pointed with pride, his British opposite number, Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, wrestled with a new economic crisis. At a luncheon of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce last week, Lloyd tacitly confessed that Britain could no longer afford the economic strain of behaving like a great power, must cut its military expenses and avoid increases in foreign aid. Said Lloyd grimly: "We have been trying to do too much . . . Since the war, we have spent money out of all proportion to our resources to hold the free line throughout the world...
...observed capital cases and magistrates' trials over some stolen apples, the gaudy, almost cheerful parade of prostitutes through London police courts, and the elusive battles of psychiatric testimony. In all, she found the chilling sense of man in the hands of a man-made machine, a machine straining to be both humane in understanding and inhuman in objectivity. The strain is often hardest on the man on the bench. An English barrister thought a good judge ought to be "Oh, a happily married chap, you know; garden, kind heart, good health and not too much out for himself...