Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-room shack in Daiseytown, Pa. where he and ten other Slavik children lived on their father's scant coal-mining wages. At 16, Mike lied about his age and escaped into the Army. In the Army, Mike won a hero's medals, but injuries and battle strain were too much for him. He was hurt at Lae, but when he was sent to an Australian hospital, he ran away and was A.W.O.L. for three months. Sent back into the Pacific fighting, he was wounded and suddenly cracked up. He now admits: "I just couldn't take...
...What have we lost or gained intellectually by five years of war? We have gained in seriousness, but lost in mental elasticity; the emotional strain of war has broken our curiosity, has fatigued us to the point at which we are cynical, impervious, distressed or hostile in the presence of new ideas...
Platitudinous Paraphrase. Sensing the growing strain on U.S.-British relations, Britain last week dispatched its ace trouble shooter, Minister of State Richard K. Law, to Washington...
...Arturo Romero, but regretted his lack of military experience. Dictator Aguirre's threats of "dangerous consequences" to Guatemala for harboring Salvadoran rebels frightened that country's Revolutionary Junta into talking of a Mexican-Guatemalan-Costa Rican alliance against the dictators. The rest of Central America continued to strain and heave...
...research which perfected this automatic landing system was directly inspired by the operations of the Eighth Air Force in England; it was developed to take the strain off pilots in landing their heavy bombers at the end of long, tiring missions over Europe. It can bring a plane in with zero ceiling and visibility...