Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obligations of the ruler and the ruled, and the duty of the individual to resist any interference by state or hierarchy between him and his God. Calvinism's left wing, says Nichols, helped build the "Puritan Protestantism" which contributed more to democratic ways & means than any other Christian strain...
...preacher began his text: "He that believeth in me though he be dead yet shall he live." Old Jim turned, beaming, to a friend. "Ain't that guy a preaching fool? I'm gonna set him up for life." Tears gathered in his eyes when the recorded strain of Beautiful Isle of Somewhere floated out over the armory...
Most of the twelve Great Stories (Leinster modestly includes only two of his own) still put too heavy a strain on credibility, e.g., in one, a dead dancer carries on, mentally at least, when her brain is transferred to a metal figure. But the best of the stories show signs of serious effort to keep fantasy within hailing distance of reality. SF cultists of the old guard may deplore the trend-on the ground that it threatens, sooner or later, to take all the amazement out of the amazing. But it will be all right with most book publishers. Though...
When the fighters entered the Madison Square Garden ring, Williams, who was still earnestly shadow-boxing eight hours before the fight to sweat off the last three-quarters of a pound, looked string-muscled and drawn from the strain of making the weight. Carter, also 27 and a natural lightweight (133 lbs.), looked plump in comparison. And he did not seem to have read the jeering predictions of the sportwriters...
Crewmen, coxswains, and coaches have helped four University scientists develop a new blood test to judge emotional strain, it was learned yesterday...