Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more obvious explanation of Spellman's rise in the Church is that he has qualities the Church wants in its leaders. The hierarchy is always eager to make the most of its personnel, and an industrious young cleric can be sure that a strain of humility will not handicap his rise in the Church Militant. His superiors will see that he learns the art of patience. When Rome first suggested to Cardinal O'Connell that Spellman join the Vatican Secretariat, the Cardinal, who did not always look kindly upon the rising young cleric, kept Spellman in suspense...
...hear its gentle strain...
...slapstick and high comedy, carefully understated emotion, and plain-&-simple bathos. Before he is through, Director Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind) manages to lug in almost everything except a flood, a fire, an Indian massacre and a trained collie. But the dialogue somehow holds up under the strain, and there are a few wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress Garson, frequently cast in heavy-heroine or merely mealy parts, carries off her role with sparkle...
...business of standing up started a whole series of disorders stemming from the extra stress & strain put on the lumbosacral area, keystone of the spine. Practically everyone at one time or another has back pains. The only exception: toddlers, who temporarily retain a few quadruped characteristics...
...science deliberately set out to give the laboratory rats nervous breakdowns. They buzzed buzzers loud & long and blew sharp, steady blasts from an air hose. Finally, half the rats could no longer stand the strain: they broke down and trembled, twitched their tails, clawed the air, lay on their sides and kicked, ran in circles. But except for these nervous tantrums, the unstable rats seemed to differ in only one respect from the imperturbable rats: they had an abnormally high sugar and protein content in their blood...