Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaning against the doorpost I strain to see afar in time The fate that waits our present age . . . The Pharisees exult. How hard This life, and long my way of stone...
...journalism would surely have pointed out that the remarks ascribed to Governor Stevenson by Robert Boulay I June 61 correspond to nothing anyone else has ever heard Stevenson say publicly or privately. Governor Stevenson is fully and explicitly on record on the question of Ber lin. It might conceivably strain the credulity even of TIME to suppose that he would sud-denlv choose to confide to an itinerant French newspaperman views on Berlin which are incompatible with everything else he has said on the subject...
...recuperates. Du Pont tried this system on one worker who was losing 60 working days a year through nausea. When efforts to find the trouble failed, psychiatrists and his supervisor set up a realistic performance standard, insisted that he keep to it. The worker warned his boss that the strain would bring on the usual nausea. Said the boss: "Go to the window and throw up, then get back to work." The worker improved so much that he was later made a foreman...
This was not surprising: the voice came from a five-watt transmitter 8,000,000 miles away from the earth. Britain's 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank could still hear the signal, but the U.S. station at South Point. Hawaii had to strain its 60-ft. ear. So the time had finally come to shoot the works-by switching on the probe's 150-watt transmitter...
Died. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 86, philanthropist son of the two-fisted founder of the Standard Oil empire, father of New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller; of pneumonia and heart strain; in Tucson, Ariz, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...