Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London. Other reports were that the Italian masses were growing restless under continued war strain, that the Army of the Po, like many a careless motorist, had just run out of gas. London heard that Il Duce, after piloting his own plane over the troops, had suffered a heart attack. The hard-driving dictator, now 56, did not show up for the concluding review, same night ostentatiously appeared at an open-air opera. But the rumors persisted. For answering a query about them, Herbert-Roslyn ("Bud") Ekins, United Press man in Rome, got the most drastic punishment ever dealt...
...post-War financiers-too ambitious to be dismayed by the wreckage that demoralized older economists, too tough to be rebuffed by the snubs and cuts of a decaying financial aristocracy, slippery enough to make his way through the crevices that appeared as the social structure cracked under war strain. Adroit to the end, he died before his bank closed its doors...
...frank, fresh, full-blown, natural, vibrantly on the up & up. Maisie lets the cinemaudience know early that life has braced her for a right uppercut and a left to the jaw, so being stranded in Big Horn, Wyo. with only 15? during rodeo week puts no undue strain on her morale. She takes a stand behind the counter of a shooting gallery, goes gunning for a big, silent ranch hand (Robert Young), misses his heart with her first try. Happily pursuing him out on the range, Maisie is resourcefully wrangling her man with a healthy woman's zest when...
...speculators even talked seriously of far less likely magic such as further dollar devaluation-which would make it cheaper for the dictatorships to buy needed supplies in the U. S. and would put a strain on the pound sterling and the franc, a distinct disadvantage in the President's eyes...
...still marched and countermarched in Germany on "routine" maneuvers. They were enough to keep Poland, France and Great Britain on edge. Poland showed signs of beginning to feel the economic strain of mobilization, but France and Britain let the Nazi Führer know that they were on to his game and that they could afford to hold out longer than he could...