Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors can diagnose the trouble when the wires leading from the pacemaker to the heart break because of metal fatigue. The University of Kentucky's Dr. Harold D. Rosenbaum reports that this can easily happen, not only because of the incessant movement of the heart -which puts a strain on the wires-but also as a result of breathing and such everyday actions as tying shoelaces. If the breaks are detected in time, the patient can get along well again after an operation to replace the wires...
...story straight in Saigon is the biggest problem, but getting it out has sometimes been almost as big a task. As the U.S. involvement in the war in Viet Nam has risen, so have the ranks of the foreign press corps (which currently totals some 200) and the strain on the severely limited communications facilities. This week, word traffic out of Saigon is vastly improved, thanks largely to the ingenuity and cooperation of three men - Director General Nguyen Van Dieu of Viet Nam's Administration des Postes et Télécommunications, RCA Communications, Inc. Vice President Charles...
Until Phyllis McGinley, no poet had ever successfully domesticated the muse, or, for that matter, had even tried to. Her singular achievement is that she has brought off the match without undue strain on either partner. The Hayden household in Larchmont rang to the rhythms of recited poetry. "We used to sit around the fire while she read it to us," Daughter Julie recalls. "It was mostly ballads-and Yeats and Chesterton too. She chose dramatic stuff because she believes that poetry should appeal to the emotions. Mother and Patsy would always cry at the sad parts...
...delinquency figures have been gradually edging up, and mortgage foreclosures have doubled in the past four years (to 108,620 in 1964). Americans now typically spend 14.3% of their income to pay off their debts. While nobody knows for sure if that is too much of a strain, most lenders argue that the nation's rising levels of savings, income and sophistication prevent it from getting in too deeply. In addition, the major cause of the debt rise is that more people are buying houses-instead of merely paying rent-and thereby adding to their assets. ' Americans have...
...station since 1953, has become a glib, gemütlich master of the new formula. All he has to defend himself against his telephone callers is a tape-delay device, which gives him a four-second time lag in which to erase obscenities from the air. To ease the strain, there is an occasional celebrity visitor such as Songstress Edie Adams or Rocky Marciano...