Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...difficulties deferred until after the U.S. elections, none has greater implications for U.S. and free-world security than the strain within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
Goldwater is a threat, not because he moves counter to the stream of American life and thought, but because he represents a strain woven deeply into the American mythology--the self-sufficiency of the individual. Belief in the individual is essential to any liberal society, but Goldwater extrapolates this concept from its social context and makes it all-important. Society becomes a mere collection of atomistic units, each an island unto himself. It is regarded as they, not we. It is the individual's lack of identification with society that enables him to excuse his irresponsibility by saying 'Society...
...civil rights bill and the federal pay raise-all were products of the resoluteness with which Johnson as sumed his unaccustomed leadership. That leadership paid him a dividend: the respect and confidence of a wide swath of the U.S. business community, which recognized in Johnson a strong strain of prudence in economic affairs. From these successes-from out of the shadow of Jack Kennedy-emerged still a different, a bolder man, whose aim it was to imprint the Johnson character on the one year remaining to him as President. At Ann Arbor, Mich., in May, Johnson established the theme...
That kind of mental strain can beat the best pair of legs, and it has, in the past, beaten Walt Hewlett...