Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most patients had a mild reaction, such as a slight fever, and then felt better. But one got an inflammation of the liver, and Dr. Lincoln decided that germs of what he calls Strain Alpha must somehow have been transmuted into Strain Beta, with its own phage. With two phages at hand, Dr. Lincoln went on to treat grippe and liver inflammation. Soon he spread out to treat laryngitis, tonsillitis, abscessed teeth, neuralgia, cataract and glaucoma. By 1948 he was treating cancer and tuberculosis...
...Those who heard him sing Ideale were surprised at the ease and quality of the old tenor robusto's voice. The catch, and the reason for his retirement from the Met in 1945: "It is the heart . . . When one is older, the heart cannot bear the strain and worry and excitement [of the opera stage]. It tells on the voice." However, he finds TV more pleasure than strain, and after his third appearance as a guest is giving some thought to a program...
...strain is beginning to tell on the negotiators. Crabbed Admiral Joy: "Some people get my goat. They do not want any casualties, but they want an armistice quickly. And they want an armistice without any concessions to the enemy." This week, the U.N. no longer seemed a confident command acceding to the petitions of a battered enemy. Instead, it seemed the side which desperately wants the truce because it does not know what else...
...Much Luxury. Even more dismaying than her economic woes and her political divisions are the rigid inequities which strain French morality. Cried President Auriol in a recent speech: "I know what makes people most impatient today: too much luxury, too much comfort, too much ease, side by side with too much poverty and penury." Sample injustices...
...friends' demands, he will run after all. The ceremony came off right on schedule a fortnight ago; it was almost time to look for the first forsythia. Then, last week, Muley sadly broke the tradition. He announced that his doctors had ordered him not to risk the strain of another campaign...