Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reduce their foreign investments. De Gaulle's bombshell may have convinced the President that tougher action is needed. In any case, official Washington agrees with De Gaulle on at least one point: some changes should be made in a world monetary system that puts the U.S. under such strain...
...most common skiing accident is fracture of the ankle or lower leg, and strains at the knee. Dr. Manson therefore reiterates the importance of having good equipment: an efficient safety binding will convert a stress capable of breaking a bone into a simple strain, and a stress capable of producing a strain into nothing but a loosened...
...early October game against North Carolina State, Namath had rolled out on an option play and dropped suddenly as if poleaxed. No other player had even touched him. Under the strain of a sudden stop, his tensed knee had simply collapsed. First aid consisted of ice packs, and a couple of days later Alabama Surgeon Ernest C. Brock Jr. removed some fluid ("water on the knee") by inserting a hollow needle in the swollen joint...
...veins in that arm they had threaded a thin plastic tube (catheter) right into Muggsy's heart. The doctors were observing the pressure changes inside his heart while the great horn man was blowing, to see whether he could go on playing without putting too great a strain on his heart...
...strain tells on the faculties. Florida State's President Gordon Blackwell leaves this month to become president of Furman University in Greenville, S.C., in evident disgust at the lack of scholarly independence. Similarly fed up with "academic frustration," George T. Harrell, dean of the college of medicine at Gainesville, has resigned to become head of the medical school at the University of Pennsylvania...