Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search for leptin began in the 1960s, when Douglas Coleman, a researcher at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, began studying a strain of obese laboratory mice. In a series of ingenious experiments, Coleman surgically joined the blood vessels of an obese mouse to those of a normal-size mouse, creating a sort of artificial Siamese twin. What happened then was astonishing: the fat animal immediately began to lose weight. This suggested that the blood of nonobese mice carried a potent biochemical messenger, one that played a vital role in regulating appetite and metabolism. But the mysterious agent...
Peretz, on the other hand, makes himself a fool trying to serve the parochial interests of an ugly strain of Zionism. For him to say that comparing Jews to Nazis is always wrong is for him to betray himself as a racist. Being Jewish gives no man or woman immunity from cruelty. Being a Jews, as a matter of blood or faith, does not pardon any man or woman from the full moral stain of fascistic conduct...
...occasion later. Poindexter: a brilliant student at the Naval Academy who suffered afterward, in Timberg's rendering, from a blind-side naivete about politics. McFarlane: a saintly self-diminisher, subverted by thoughts of his own unworthiness but cherishing immense ambitions. When McFarlane attempted suicide in 1987 under the strain of Iran-contra, it was by the strangely unmartial means of a Valium overdose...
...militias contain a virulent strain, however. And it is these few who take preemptive strikes against the imagined shadow government. It is these few who plant bombs that murder innocent children and innocent federal employees. And it is these few who really are the enemies of the people...
...militias and their terrorist strain share one thing with millions of Americans, and that is the insecurity of our times. Call it the economic insecurity of the post-industrial economy: the falling wages of those without college degrees and their search to find meaningful work in the information age. Or call it the ideological insecurity of the post Cold war era: the shades of gray that have covered a world that once appeared to be divided...