Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alevizos doubted that the girls' presence for two weeks would cause a serious strain on either Lamont's space or supply of reserve books. "If we thought that, we wouldn't have opened it up," he declared. Girls will be allowed to use all the facilities in the building, though Alevizos stressed that the library is open primarily for reserve books...
...throwing arm, and he first discovered it two years ago. Four mornings after pitching-and winning-a particularly tough game against Milwaukee, he awoke to find his entire arm swollen "like a log, a waterlogged log." Orthopedist Robert Kerlan told Sandy it was traumatic osteoarthritis caused by the unnatural strain of pitching. From time to time, the liquid could be drawn out with a syringe, and the swelling could be reduced by cortisone and other medication. But every time he threw a baseball, the elbow would get worse...
...nation's balance-of-payments deficit. Even so, some 1,500 Americans were still looking for a way home last week, including 250 at Shannon, Ireland, and about 400 in London, where a party of Massachusetts schoolteachers bedded down on airport couches. The strain in Spain was mainly to get aboard Iberia Airlines planes from Madrid to New York. Last week police quelled one fracas in which 19 irate tourists threatened to slug counter attendants and then stormed the runway gates when told that their supposedly confirmed reservations could not be honored...
...lotus' size made balance precarious, and its tenderness made walking painful. The withering of the foot caused a withering of the calf and sometimes dangerously distorted the curve of the spine and the position of vital organs. The Chinese believed, however, that by shifting muscular strain from the lower leg to the hip region, the process considerably increased the size of a woman's thighs and buttocks and permanently strengthened the pelvic muscles, alterations much appreciated by Chinese...
Since then, Pei has been working on the details of the library and the archives, which will be put under Federal supervision when they are completed, the Institute and commercial dwellings. Pei hopes that the commercial buildings such as restaurants and gift shops will help case the strain on Harvard Square that will be produced by an estimated 700,000 visitors per year to the library...