Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a Verdict. When the verdict was ready (the jury was out more than 26 hours), Judy entered the courtroom at Archie's side, her face expressionless and pale, the blue circles under her eyes showing the strain of her trial. Smiling nervously, she turned to him: "I don't know whether I can take it or not." Lawyer Archie was brash and noisy as ever. "Don't worry," he explained with fatherly concern. "It's only a verdict...
...Viruses. There is a long list of things that Dr. Alice can do now to exploit her discovery-so many things that Dr. Rhoads is enlarging her dangerous laboratory. One is to try the encephalitis virus on monkeys. The laboratory strain has lived so long in mouse brains that it may have lost its ability to attack primates. If it proves harmless to monkeys, it probably will not hurt humans. The final step will be to try it on human cancer patients to see if it attacks their tumors...
...probably the world's most sarcastic readership, which makes every hurried cliche the subject of many cruel barbs. A Saturday sporting event is easy, because the publication schedule of this journal allows for a leisurely and calculated write-up, but the occasion of a night hockey game can strain any man's regard for the English language...
...timeless process of insult, hatred, frustration, collapse and final resigned slavery cannot be jammed into 90 brief minutes without showing the strain. "Home of the Brave" is a good motion picture. It is not, unfortunately, an excellent one, and its influence may be less than hoped for. In order to get their point across and make it somewhat palatable, which may or may not be a weakness, the producers have chosen to fall back on the ancient vehicle of psychiatry to explain the important issues. They have further disturbed the story of a young Negro surveyor alone among white soldiers...
...dark so much as of an ash-grey age-in which the springs of life dried. In painting Mr. Eliot it has been my endeavor to convey . . . some vestige of all that. So you will see in his mask, drained of too hearty blood, a gazing strain, a patient contraction, the body slightly tilted (in the immaculate armor of sartorial convention) in resigned anticipation of the worst...