Word: strainingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news? The real precedents are homegrown. Years ago, D.H. Lawrence, making his way through American literature, fell upon Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo and pronounced, "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." A fancy line, but true only of a certain whip-mean conscienceless strain in the American character. It is not a bad description of the Oklahoma City suspect's eyes...
...ought to be, and is, committed to defending the Constitution. It doesn't need instant experts, immediate second-guessing or quick fixes from any quarter. If Oklahoma City is a trumpet announcing a long siege, we all need, as they say in the Navy, to take an even strain...
...TRYING TO ENACT THEIR CONTRACT with America in 100 days [Congress, April 10], Republican members of Congress exhausted their minds, frayed their tempers and strained their family relationships under the relentless prodding of the Speaker of the House. When medieval monks were subjected to an ascetic life of physical and mental strain, they suffered from hallucinations. Perhaps Republicans have come to believe that Newt Gingrich is King...
...sorry to see the Corporation take this attitude," said Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn. "I think this will indeed further strain administrative-faculty relations...
Today Gibney is Time's Hanoi bureau chief, heading the first official bureau of an American newsmagazine to reopen in Vietnam since the war ended. The country, he discovers, is still caught up in an epic struggle, but this time a kind of Paradise Regained. "You have to strain to find the war now," he says. "And it's beside the point." Everywhere, the economy is booming, and, says Gibney, "everyone wants a piece of Vietnam's future." Even legendary war hero General Vo Nguyen Giap, now in his 80s, who used to talk of nothing...