Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson team, reflecting the temporary loss of number three man Hugh Nawn as well as the strain of reading period, played below par and now has only a slim chance of capturing the league title...
...Wagnerian mood We're forced to strain a lung And serve the ponderous musical food Of Götterddmmerung...
...corner office on the ground floor every morning by 10. He walks to work down Seventh Avenue from his apartment in fashionable Essex House, on the edge of Central Park. He travels home for dinner by subway, returns to the Met and seldom gets home again before midnight. The strain of twelve-hour days has already made Bing look a little more drawn and grey than when he took over last summer...
...President had shown occasional signs of nervous strain, mainly by a growing habit of tapping his foot during moments of tension-and also by getting off the intemperate letters which Presidents might write but don't usually post. He was having some minor tooth trouble which called for new fillings. He was working late at night, and after the checkup-although he still sleeps like a log-Dr. Graham asked him to cut out his early morning exercise (a two-mile walk, a swim, a rubdown) on two days of the week, in order to get more rest...
Breakthrough (Warner) travels with a rifle platoon of the ist Infantry Division into the Normandy invasion, the hedgerow fighting and the Saint-Lô battle that launched the Allied blitz through France. From Twelve O'Clock High it borrows the problem of the commander who cracks under the strain of identifying himself with his men; from Battleground, the familiar roster of civilian-soldier types; from Sands of Iwo Jima, the technique of intercutting its scenes liberally with real combat footage and battering its sound track with thunderous explosions...