Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because he fears more disturbances-and because neither China's trains nor its depleted stock of foodstuffs could stand the strain-Mao canceled all Chinese celebrations of the Lunar New Year this week. It was the first such cancellation in 5,000 years of Chinese history, an act roughly equivalent to calling off Christmas...
...impossible for a team to avoid a little strain between its members in the midst of a long losing streak. For that reason. Dressler believes the two-week layoff came at just the right moment. "We were in a rut," Dressler admitted. "and the break did us good...
...Church of Sant' Andrea della Valle, plus two portrait busts from Confraternita della Pietá (a 17th century charity hospital demolished in 1937), long forgotten in the cellar of an adjacent church. Each is stamped with the baroque characteristic of the human presence hyperpersonified, with anatomy in strain, gestures exaggerated, details made into drama...
Manchester lay ill last week in a Connecticut hospital, the victim of "reactive depression" and pneumonia induced by strain and fatigue. Jackie Kennedy vacationed in the British West Indies, and Bobby Kennedy still skied in Sun Valley - yet that did not stop defenders and detractors from choosing up sides...
...economic strain, a major factor in the downfall of Ludwig Erhard's government two months ago, is even more visible today. More than at any other time since the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) transformed war-torn West Germany into Europe's biggest trading power, television and automobile manufacturers are stuck with unsold stock, building cranes stand idle, and workers are uneasy about their jobs. The nation's economic growth, which has averaged almost 6% a year since 1950, dropped to barely 3% in 1966, is likely to dip to an icy 2% this year. "The economy," warns Fritz...