Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Stand-Off. Not long after Whirlaway was retired to stud, in 1943, Ben himself began to talk about retiring. Diabetes and the strain of 40 hectic years on the track was beginning to tell...
...Among them was Clifford M. Holland, the tunnel project's chief engineer, who died of strain and overwork three years before the great bore was completed...
Another, all-pervading, source of strain was the impersonality of combat, strengthened by such measures of replacing losses by individuals rather than units. The G.I.s resented being "treated as numbers...
...hard to make proper use of the mind. Man was better off in the Middle Ages, when he had a better chance of 1) a job that demanded individual skill, 2) some security, and 3) a sense of doing something useful in the community. Modern man has been straining so long after success, often doing a job he dislikes, that the strain has become second nature. Men of today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they are in a state of continual and futile preparedness." Their nervous...
...many parts, ranging from sheer farce to stark tragedy, drained Dickens' abounding vitality even more than his dependents drained his well-filled purse (he left nearly half a million dollars when he died). When he deliberately added to the strain by touring England and the U.S., reading and miming famous chapters of his novels, he knew that he was shortening his life. For a few years he enjoyed the actor's supreme privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk...