Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here with the troops. . . . My brother Franklin has been on a destroyer in the North Atlantic. . . . James has insisted on active duty, even though he is not physically up to the strain of combat...
...strain had become almost too much to bear, even the sympathetic bevy at the Vendome looked askance at the now bell-bottomed trousers of the hapless middles. But relief came at last as bales of shineless, creaseful trousers poured into the school; beaming faces flocked around the commissary, and departed, clutching madly at their proud new possessions...
...clock preoccupation with Cologne (submarine engines and parts), Wilhelmshaven, St. Nazaire and Brest (U-boat bases) bore out reports that one major Casablanca decision was to interrupt or abandon indiscriminate bombing of industrial targets. The chosen alternative: concentrate on submarine building centers and ports, thus easing the U-boat strain from United Nations supply lines...
Tough guy Bogart, who couldn't play this sort of role wrong if he tried, is right in character as a guy named Rick, except that something new has been added. Besides an ill-concealed strain of sentimentality, Bogart, the soldier of fortune, has acquired a social consciousness under his callous shell which, we are told, caused him to do his usual tommy-gunning with the Loyalists in Spain and which finally causes him to become the martyred lover. Miss Bergman, possessor of the kind of sensitive, intelligent charm that makes most of Hollywood's leading ladies look like female...
...food rationing office emphasized the fact that students who go home for weekends should be able to bring their books out, so as to put no strain on family larders...