Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this detailed mass of technicalities emerged the solid fact that President Roosevelt's discretionary powers over Foreign Policy would be sharply limited. In his strain to prove the honest will of the Administration to keep out of war, and to prove his intent to give Congress control over Foreign Policy, Senator Pittman even went beyond the Constitution. For, under the Constitution the President cannot be ordered by Congress to proclaim a state of war. Constitutionalists held that this provision of the bill would subordinate the White House to Congress...
Women whose chief duty was to keep the home fires burning-somewhere-had their troubles too. On to hard-driven wives of low-pay workers went the added strain of higher food and clothing prices. They simply did with even less amusements, scarce anyway since the blackouts. Toughest economic time of all was had by wives of well-paid business and professional men called to the colors or the Government, or dismissed from their civilian positions. Their domestic overhead was out of all proportion to Army or civil service pay, and if the husband had no job at all, there...
Jaakko, always deliberate and considerate, wants to use the meet to give the Freshman Harrlers a taste of competition, as well as giving the Varsity a limber up and appetizer. Though every Jaakko trained pack is out to win, there are explicit instructions not to strain for this meet, even if B. U. is far from being a pushover...
...atmosphere--here one of acute depression, of utter hopelessness--by a combination of action, settings, lines, incidental characters, facial expressions, and omnipresent fog. They would feel themselves drawn into this gray morass until they themselves know the inevitable bleak prospect awaiting these characters. They would feel actual physical strain in the suspense which piles up to the only possible denouement...
...time appeared to have plunged him? Always dynamic, conqueror of many an Ethiopian and Albanian, utterly fearless in denouncing the Masons, a great fellow for jumping over bayonets at Fascist parties (or, better still, having his subordinates do it) how would II Duce measure up to the strain...