Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WHRV staff managed to stand up under the strain because different disc jockeys took turns spinning the records...
Taking a tip from Lenin's 1921 Russian shift to the New Economic Policy, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung was striving to ease the strain of revolution by talking of moderation. He hoped to allay the fears of capitalists and technicians, both Chinese and foreigners. New phrases which sounded like U.S. factory slogans urged workers to "study technique and raise production efficiency, cherish your implements and save raw materials." Said a Red soldier in Tsinan: "In the villages we have to eliminate feudalism and boost production, and in the cities we have to protect industry and commerce so that...
...friendship between Benny and CBS also seemed to be suffering a strain. CBS Vice President Frank Stanton declared that it was "utterly fantastic" for anyone to expect CBS to make up Benny's tax losses because of the bureau's ruling. Said Stanton, washing his hands of the whole affair: "From here on out it is strictly a matter between Mr. Benny and the Revenue Bureau...
Allport cited the study of Dr. Erich Lindemann of the Massachusetts General Hospital after the Cocoanut Grove fire to illustrate that continued suppression of feelings often produces strain and tension in the individual personality. He added that such a state can develop into a complex of a serious order...
More than a third of the Protestants and about a tenth of the Catholics and Jews (who usually start seminary training at an earlier age) are war veterans; most of the Protestants are married. Few are free from financial strain. Although nearly all the students at McCormick have a part-time preaching assignment, or work at other outside jobs, most of their wives also work...