Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand at $7.34 billion, more than double Britain's holdings. For four years, the Western allies have been pressing the Germans to channel some of this burgeoning wealth into foreign aid to underdeveloped lands. But Bonn answered with excuses: in 1957, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer protested he could not strain his budget in an election year; in 1958, it was a brief recession; since then, only a pittance has been produced, none of it very philanthropic...
...sturdily rebutted some of the less knowledgeable, most hair-raising claims about the horrors of atomic fallout, Libby did not enjoy his AEC job. He never saw an atomic explosion, and may never see one. Moreover, as he said last week of his AEC experience, "There was constant strain and tension there...
Actually, the steel industry does not like to operate much above 90% of capacity, and its average rate is 75% to 80%. A rate near 100% not only puts a big strain on facilities, but means much overtime work, cuts into profits...
...longer secret dinner for 14 'regular' White House correspondents last year, we were given the necessarily rare privilege of a social evening with the President and a chance to talk to him with a minimum of strain and formality. By the luck of a draw, I was seated to his immediate left...
Uneasy Consciences. Approaching 70, De Gaulle is showing the strain of gathering burdens-in red-rimmed eyes sunk deep into their sockets, in the sagging greyness of flesh on his jowls, in the thickness of his voice. He is under the sharpest attack since he returned to power in 1958. In trying to settle the Algeria problem, he has not finally quelled the discontent in the restive army, and now pressures are rising in France-from political parties, trade unions and intellectuals-to start political and military talks with the Algerians at once, without waiting, as De Gaulle once insisted...