Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vigilant lest foreigners import them. They felt a reverence for the soil in which the esthetic and the utilitarian were inseparable. When Consul Lang tried to sell them on the time-saving uses of U.S. farm machinery, they were far less interested in time-saving than in the indecent strain which would be put on their horses...
...meantime, Sammy is going about his business, planting, weeding and mowing, helping his friends with their new problems, worrying that his invalid mother might not be able to bear the strain of either being parted from her family or leaving her home. Nevertheless he is packed and ready; he will do willingly whatever is necessary and buy a war bond, too, when he gets over his confusion and resentment...
Their cabin, which blimpmen call "the car," is fitted out with airline luxury-three bunks, chrome chairs, cookstove. There is a reason for these comforts. Effective watch is a terrible strain, especially when the lookout must scan not only the surface, but underwater-for U-boats have a habit of lying motionless on the continental shelf in daytime. Consequently blimp observers can stand watch only a little over an hour at a time, are encouraged to doze during the off watches. Any comfort they can be given is not wasted...
...ruling, men who have had ulcers of the stomach or intestine are now admitted into the U.S. Army, provided they have had no symptoms for five years and have negative X-rays. This ruling worries gastroenterologists, who believe that ulcers are caused by nervous strain and that a man who has once had longstanding ulcers might get them again in military life...
...crisis caused in their economies was nothing compared to the crisis in Argentina-which at the Rio Conference had most stubbornly held out for full neutrality. Aloof Argentina, though she politely sent observers to the I.-A.D.B., declined all truck with convoys; they would compromise her neutrality. But the strain was telling...