Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nantucket Memorial Airport was socked in, and all flights to and from the island resort off the southern hook of Cape Cod were canceled. The only thing moving through the mist was an awkward contraption that looked like an oversized giraffe with a bad case of neck strain. As it rumbled along, the monster seemed to be generating additional fog, spewing a fine white spray out of its tall tip. But the machine's passage produced remarkable results. In less than half an hour, some of the thick ocean-born fog overhanging the field began to disappear...
When a new strain of Asian flu broke out in Hong Kong last July, infecting 400,000 and killing 26, U.S. Public Health Service officials took immediate action. Naming the new strain A-2/Hong Kong/68, they sent off samples to labs to be bred in fertilized hen's eggs* and converted into vaccine...
Elusive Bliss. Despite such symptoms of strain, Arthur Okun, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, insisted last week: "The economy is moving into improved balance." Yet in almost the next breath, he told a Manhattan meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board: "If ever there is to be a year of bliss for the American economy it will not be 1969." Predicting that consumers will soon slow their heavy buying, Okun forecast a gradual slowdown of economic expansion. Along with that, he said, will come a rise in unemployment, a profit squeeze on business, and continued...
Detroit had its own test prepared. It is a 100-question exam that Medical Director Dr. George Moriarty says sifts out "emotional instability, stress and strain, sadistic inclinations, those not really interested in a police career, borderline cases and homos." In Cincinnati, groups of ten police applicants at a time take part in two-hour bull sessions on such topics as homosexuality and minority groups. Psychologists listen in, and observe their every move...
...Genet thought a better description was "mad dogs, who for the past 150 years have done the same thing, with even greater brutality, to the blacks." Improving on even this literary eloquence, Southern found the "dog-cop image quite apt, but in my view there is also a salient strain of swine in the character of those who drove the young people out of Lincoln Park. Swine, or perhaps the hated mandrill...