Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION 1. The Godfather, Puzo (2 last week) 2. The Love Machine, Susann(l) 3. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (3) 4. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (4) 5. The Pretenders, Davis (5) 6. Ada, Nabokov (6) 7. Naked Came the Stranger, Ashe (7) 8. Except for Me and Thee, West (10) 9. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald (8) 10. The Death Committee, Gordon
...anywhere and test anything in the hope of finding medicines to use against diseases and disorders that by present methods are either difficult to treat or incurable. One of their most fortuitous finds was made in a Peoria (Ill.) market, where they scraped from an overripe cantaloupe the parent strain of mold that fathered millions of doses of penicillin. Now that most of the world's land surface has been finecombed for microbes that might yield new antibiotics, the scientists are turning to the sea. One useful drug, cephalothin (which is effective against many germs that are resistant...
...every golfer not in the P.G.A. class soon learns, golf balls are deceptively fragile items. They are prone to chipping, cracking or denting when not stroked properly. Keeping an adequate supply on hand makes the game an expensive pastime. Now modern manufacturing techniques are taking away much of the strain. At least four firms, including the Faultless Rubber Co. of Ashland, Ohio, and the Chemold Corp. of Jamaica, N.Y., are making "solid-state" balls that are all but indestructible...
...idea that two actors with such well-authenticated heterosexual credentials as Richard Burton and Rex Harrison would portray a pair of middle-aging homosexuals is calculated to strain, and simultaneously tease the imagination. From the time that the filming of Staircase was announced, cinemagoers wondered whether it was a stunt, an acting challenge or another bold foray into the territory of the taboo. The danger was that the pair would nance it up and produce a heterosexual parody of homosexual mannerisms-a kind of male pseudo-female impersonation act. It is to the credit of all concerned that Staircase...
...hard to object to this rise in political standards; yet perfection has its limits. The man entrusted with high public office today operates under unprecedented strain: he may well feel personally responsible for the survival of much of the human race in the nuclear age. More than ever, he needs the kind of private release that the open frontier once provided. A successful politician often possesses immense energy that needs to be released. The obscure private citizen can lose control of himself in public. Nobody but his friends will care. The man in public life must exercise iron control...