Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking experiment indicated that heredity can be a decisive influence. Ingalls said that when a completely different strain of mice--brown mice--were put in the vacuum chamber on the ninth day of pregnancy, more than 15 per cent of their offspring had hernias: yet there were no hernias in the offspring of several thousand white mice who had had the same experience...
...King, subcommittee chairman, promptly scheduled an Oliphant appearance. But when the time came, Oliphant didn't show up. He was ill, said his attorney, seemed almost "suffering from shock." Mr. Grunewald couldn't appear, either. His physician said he was in the hospital suffering from "severe emotional strain" and gastrointestinal disturbances...
...small group (including Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas and Philip D. Reed, board chairman of General Electric) thinks that present arms production is too high, that the inflationary strain on the U.S. economy is a greater danger at the moment than Soviet Russia. If the Korean war stops, this view is likely to grow in influence...
Even if war does not come in this period, the professors add, the defense effort must still face some "very stubborn facts": the strain of rearmament on the economy of European nations, a shortage of critical materials in the U.S., and an "increasingly serious lag" in the production of defense weapons...
...There he noosed one end of the wire around his neck, got up on an old wash basin, tied the other end of the wire around a ceiling pipe. Then he jumped. Some time between then and noon, when a team trainer found him, the wire broke under the strain. By then, it was too late for Nick Liotta...