Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...properly, or there may be complications in the soft tissues. An orthopedist will not lightly undertake such operations for the sole purpose of reducing height. Ann Rowston's extreme tallness, however, justified the procedure, and Sur geon Griffiths satisfied himself that she was healthy enough to stand the strain...
...been another element of the Faculty that has simply not been reconciled to a Gen Ed program (though this group turned out to be smaller than expected. Ford says he thought "that you'd find a large group that would say that General Education was too much of a strain on the departments to be worth-while," but few speakers in the debates took that view). A "libertarian" faction composed yet another minority that wanted relative freedom for students to pick what courses they wanted...
...nearly perfect. It is utterly compact; the depth and the texture of the fantasy are established in the first moment by a lute, by Joseph Ingelfinger's clever valentine set, and by the action of the two sprites who manipulate players and audience. There is no trace of strain in Lorca's imaginative forays; he evokes intense and genuine emotion without fighting against the unreal setting of the theatre. But because the play recognizes and uses this unreality, it comes off less well in the reading than other comparable drama, and is not easy to imagine off-stage. Joel Schwartz...
Secret of Success. The absence of milk during the first few days after childbirth may be due to nothing more than fear, worry, tension. "The arrival of a mother-in-law can dry up milk within hours. Physical strain, especially lack of sleep, is equally harmful," says Dr. Grossman in GP. Yet "the greatest enemies of naps are the mother's guilty awareness of unwashed floors and dirty dishes and her friends who want to see the new baby." The secret of successful nursing is simply to nurse the baby often; the process stimulates the breasts to produce more...
Humor in the theatre depends on timing, timing on confidence, confidence on applause. An actor who misses his first laugh is likely to strain for the next--which is sure failure. Only a quarter of the Loeb's seats were filled for the opening of Eastward Ho, and the audience didn't warm up until the second act. With a bigger audience, a drunk or excited or happy one, the current production might be wonderful Last night it was flat...