Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Estes Kefauver was one of a long and honorable line of United States Senators who have defended the individual fearlessly and with compassion. Like George Norris and Robert M. LaFollette, whose worthy successor he was, Kefauver emerged from a gentle strain of native-bred populism, rooted in an ideal of equality based on honest work. He never betrayed the people who elected him because he never betrayed his own conscience...
Mandate from Heaven. Diem's consolidation of power over all odds was his finest moment. But the strain of constant intrigue had increased his distrust of all outsiders. He seldom ventured from his palace in Saigon, was almost completely out of touch with his people. The gap between Diem and the masses was widened by his militant Catholicism. The "Catholic Mandarin" believed that he ruled by a "mandate from heaven" and that it was the people's "duty" to honor the President...
...Albany Herald brought to him each day at about 3 P.M. which he diligently read for the following hour. Before making any pronouncement he shifted the tobacco in his mouth, spat, and then spoke in a creaking inaudible voice, that even counsel sitting in front of him had to strain to hear...
...ought to have two women, one for bed and one to see the Haviland china don't get chipped." On finance: "It ain't natural for money to breed . . . You get too much of it to interbreeding on Wall Street and you foul up the strain. You end up with more banks than you have carpenter shops and half the world an insurance company standing between the other half...
Vaccination against the Asian '57 strain gives only modest, if any, protection against Asian '62. But volunteers who got a new vaccine developed...