Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last March, when the John Biscoe was turned back by "impenetrable ice packs," the men resigned themselves to more work. To ease the strain, the British Broadcasting Corp. beamed special news and entertainment programs their way. The best news came from Sir Miles, who radioed that when the polar summer came in December, the John Biscoe would make another attempt to break through; if it failed, the expedition could expect a pickup by plane...
...feeling was probably as unreasonable as the weather, but it was just as inescapable. For daddy too was tired. His back ached from the strain, he was feeling economic chills, and he was running into debt. Life was just one crisis after another, bearing ugly, stubby nicknames like...
...nation's newest parlor pastime has its hazards, the convention of the National Chiropractic Association was told in Chicago. Television viewers who slump in their chairs invite "telesquat"-aches in the back. Those who strain for a better look are suckers for "telecrane"-neckache, headache and eyestrain...
...scope to General Eisenhower's great book and . . . they have given to all of us-the older generation, the young people of today, and our children tomorrow-a view of what millions endured during World War II. We whose sons were under fire in the war suffered enormous strain, but only now can we, through these films, really fully appreciate the burdens that our boys endured...
...clock one afternoon last week-less than ten hours before the deadline-word reached the steelworkers' Pittsburgh headquarters: Big Steel had capitulated. The creeping threat of a shutdown in the nation's most basic industry was suddenly lifted. His face lined with the strain of waiting, 63-year-old President Phil Murray called in the newsmen: "We are delighted to be able to say that the strike has been averted...