Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strain was noticeably absent this time. On the evening of his arrival, Nasser was welcomed at a banquet and reception for 700 guests. Feisal and Nasser sat alone together at the head of the table and dined off gold-rimmed plates. Away from the banquet table things went equally well. In less than 48 hours the two Arab potentates reached full agreement, thus enabling Nasser to leave on schedule for his current visit to the Soviet Union. The announcement was made in the chandeliered main hall of the palace, where the marble floor is carpeted in green-the color...
...take chloroquine (best-known U.S. trade name: Aralen) twice a week as a preventive. If a man is bitten by malarial mosquitoes and develops the disease despite all precautions, he is put in a hospital and given more intensive chloroquine treatment, sometimes with the addition of quinine. Refractory Strain. Malaria parasites have complex life cycles that differ with different species. Antimalarial drugs work by attacking the parasites when they are most accessible and vulnerable, usually in the bloodstream. In theory, a man who is taking his chloroquine regularly should not get malaria. But just as some bacteria have become resistant...
...breed a characteristically European pessimism when it reached these shores, but instead sparked the effort to recover a lost state of bliss, a pre-adolescent Eden that had never felt the dead hand of patriarchal restraint. What developed instead of a sense of cosmic fatalism (and its consequent strain of apocalyptic rebellion, one supposes) was an exaggerated respect for social manipulation, a penchant for forcing youth and growth into accepted social channels. Addams, Ben Lindsey, E. A. Ross, and John Wewey looked forward to conditioning the individual mind to a degree that far surpassed the plans for their European counterparts...
...surplus tooth handy just when it is needed. Now Brown University's Dr. Milton Hodosh reports encouraging progress with plas tic implants, molded to the aching jaw as soon as the offending tooth has been pulled. To make sure that the implants will stand up under any conceivable strain, he is installing them in baboons, which think nothing of trying to chew the steel bars of their cages...
...Whatever its cost in human terms, the buildup in Viet Nam will neither stimulate nor strain the American economy to any important extent. These will be the likely effects...