Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition there is the psychic strain that flows from neglecting one's assigned work. The feeling of guilt that plagues one for going to see a movie in mid-week is real--but, perversely, not real enough to force one back to one's books. In short you get the worst of both worlds...
...with leaves and chopped-up stalks. At best, say U.S. pharmacologists, the mixture is only about one-tenth as strong as hashish. Marijuana is illegally imported into the U.S., mainly from Mexico, either loose or in the form of pressed bricks, called "keys" (for kilos), weighing 2.2 lbs. Connoisseurs strain out the coarse stalks before rolling it into cigarettes or packing it loosely into long-stemmed, cooler-smoking pipes. For $5, anyone almost anywhere can buy enough through his office boy or teen-age offspring to make six cigarettes...
...assured him that I was performing to the best of my ability under heavy mental and physical strain. He doubted my veracity and said I was to receive one more chance...
...cause for reflection that through these stories ran a strain of warning about the danger to Dr. King. The 1957 story commented on how he "unflinchingly faced the possibility of violent death"; when he was Man of the Year, it was clear that "wherever he goes, death hovers in the form of crackpots...
None of the three officials seemed to think white-black relations at Harvard have reached the proportions of an emergency crisis. Glimp, who spoke with three Afro leaders on Tuesday, said the "fellows expressed grief, strain, and anger, all of which are understandable...