Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look older than he was, hoping to sound wiser than anybody else in the field. He spewed statistics like a sociologist, he quoted liberally from the historians and the poets. He never dared to be funny, except in the most sedate and magisterial way. Senator Goldwater doesn't strain at all. He is entirely himself...
...action of Kingman Brewster, Jr., Acting President of Yale, passes understanding. After the Yale Political Union, a student debating society, invited Governor Wallace of Alabama to speak at Yale during his tour of the North, Brewster warned that Wallace's presence at Yale would strain dangerously relations with New Haven's Negro community and might cause violence. As a result the YPU withdrew its invitation...
...their quality, setting up electronic protests if it has been disobeyed. A General Electric computer is scheduling the timing of each stage in the construction of a 34-story Manhattan apartment house, and in Detroit computers tell automen how to make their cars ride more smoothly by calculating the strain requirements of springs and shock absorbers...
...Great a Strain. Rarely has the CAB been subjected to such intense pressure. But last week, on the very day that a Senate hearing convened to hear Freshman Senator Kennedy's complaints, the CAB formally took the Florida run away from Northeast. It ordered the financially ailing airline to stop all operations south of New York by Oct. 14, concentrate on its lagging service in New England. "It became apparent," CAB Chairman Alan S. Boyd told Senators, "that New England was the tail and Florida was the dog-and Northeast was interested...
Northeast has never been in robust financial shape, but it was not helped by the CAB's well-intentioned 1956 decision to try to strengthen the line by allowing it to fly the lucrative New York-Miami route in competition with National and Eastern. The strain of financing long-range equipment, plus the difficulty of battling the established carriers, proved too much for Northeast; the line went more than $44 million into the hole during its seven years on the run. For the past 2½ years, it has been kept aloft only by financial transfusions from Industrialist Howard...