Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That done, Kennedy, Johnson & Co. made ready to get the disastrous post-convention session over with and get out of town. Asked by a newsman whether he thought that the Democrats had made a mistake in scheduling the post-convention session of Congress, Kennedy showed the strain. "I didn't recess it," he snapped, "and I didn't bring it back...
...Johnson had come to believe that "the duty of the artist is to strain against existing style." Goethe's stern commandment-"the pilaster is a lie"-was no longer a sufficient rallying cry as it had been for Mies's generation, and the man who had done so much in the cause of the International Style now began to rebel against it. "I became bored with glass boxes. Of course, I love my own house, but I no longer find it interesting to draw straight lines." Johnson began to look for inspiration anywhere-the ancient Greeks, the baroque...
Locomotive Chorus. When country singing came out of the hills, its highly developed morbid strain came too, and the form soon adapted itself to new material: guitarists began twanging out such up-to-date items as Old Man Atom with a locomotive chorus ("Hir-o-shi-ma, Na-ga-sa-ki"). When little Kathy Fiscus died at the bottom of a California well in 1949, the Ballad of Kathy Fiscus was probably inevitable, like the more recent Ballad of Caryl Chessman and today's Ballad of Francis Powers...
...opposite direction swerved across the road and hit the Johnson car head on. The impact jackknifed Johnson. Only his fit condition and strong body saved his back from a serious injury that would have ended all decathlon competition then and there. As it was, he suffered a severe muscular strain around the lower spine that knocked him out of another duel with Kuznetsov at the U.S.-U.S.S.R. track meet in Philadelphia in July...
...Dawn. When he finally entered the wide blue and gold council chamber, Dag Hammarskjold looked, as always, calm and cool. But there was a strain in his tired voice, and his words, usually oblique and professional, this time were plain and full of passion. The Congo, said Hammarskjold with chilling precision, is "a question of peace or war, and when saying peace or war, I do not limit my perspective to the Congo." Bluntly he portioned out blame to Belgium for dragging its feet, to the Congo for its impatience, and strongly criticized governments-unnamed-which threatened to take matters...