Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, Nixon selected a little-known career officer, Armin Meyer, who is experienced in Mideast affairs but a newcomer to the Far East. Unlike his two predecessors, who were influential with John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Meyer is not, and this at a time of increased strain between the two nations. The Japanese made no secret of their disappointment. Nixon has retained the Johnson Administration's appointees in such key spots as Paris, Rome and Saigon...
...doesn't want to go. So he'll want to know where he can find a good-looking girl. So we'll tell him. It's part of life and part of travel." On the other hand, the Guide makes a point of warning that "there's a new strain of gonorrhea so hardy that it eats sulfa and penicillin for breakfast...
...colliding with it. U.S. industrialists who suffer the sting of foreign competition-in textiles, steel, electronics-view Japan as the chief villain. On the other hand, many businessmen look yearningly toward Japan as an enormous market for American goods. Last week two significant developments took place that will strain relations in one area of business and possibly smooth them in another...
...Nasser no longer shows the strain of his darkest days in the aftermath of the 1967 war. He appears robust, cured of a reported circulatory ailment by Russian doctors, who ordered him to quit smoking. He has resumed playing tennis and Ping-Pong and, he tells friends, has recently taken to reading the Old Testament "to better understand the Jewish mind." His living room in the Cairo district of Manshiet al Bakri is filled with pictures of world leaders, many of whom he has outlasted in power, from Indonesia's Sukarno to Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...such strain, there had to be compensations. Most of the great gunfighters knocked back a mort of whisky, most of it "of a quality that would make a rabbit fight a bulldog." They also sought peace in the company of the "soiled doves" that flocked West after the Civil War. All too often, the doves turned out to be harpies. Rosa reports an episode in which a prostitute knelt and screamed cock-a-doodle-doo as she splashed happily in the hot blood of a stranger who had just been ventilated. As for Calamity Jane, Wild Bill's putative...