Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall continue to meet our commitments "whereever possible", Sir Patrick said, but in view of the "tremendous strain" these commitments place on Britain's payments balance, "there may have to be changes in the way in which we do this...
...part was a tribute to the faulty judgment of his prime opponent, seasoned Republican Party Chieftain Ismet Inönü, 81. Well aware that his own do-little administration had done nothing to enhance him with the voters, Inönü hoped to appeal to a radical strain in Turkish public opinion with a new and unaccustomed stance as a "left-of-center" friend of Russia. Turks aren't very radical. They vastly preferred Demirel's calls for renewed cordiality toward the West, new incentives for private enter prise and a promise "to get Turkey moving...
...EMPLOYMENT in the U.S. stands at a record 75 million, and unemployment is down to an eight-year low. A rising stock market attests to the seemingly invincible health of the economy; the nation shoulders the costs of foreign war and foreign aid without strain; the big metropolises revel in the autumnal excitement of the new movies, the fall fashions, the opera, the art galleries, a thousand assorted a go-gos. And amidst such affluence the U.S. Government plugs away at its War on Poverty; last week Congress passed a second-year appropriation of $1.78 billion, which is more than...
Goodwin, 33, a Kennedy Administration holdover, is a versatile intellectual and idea man who made the transition from Kennedy-style rhetoric to the homelier L.B.J. brand with no apparent strain. It was Goodwin who devised the essential idea for Kennedy's Alliance for Progress, and it was he who first dropped the phrase Great Society into an L.B.J. speech-and into the American vernacular. He accepted a $15,000 fellowship at Wesleyan University's Center for Advanced Studies, where he plans to write under his own name after years of ghosting for two Presidents...
...Germans that fathered them. Quick to anger, even quicker to swarm, the new Africans lave turned on Italian and German bees tor no apparent reason, killing off hive after hive. Moreover, the new males passed their bad blood on to new females, who went on propagating the angry strain. "We thought that when they got acclimated they would become civilized," says Father João Oscar Nedlel, S.J., a Brazilian bee expert, "but the exact opposite has happened...