Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buckingham Palace in honor of Queen Juliana of The Netherlands.) Before the debate began, Wyatt and several supporters headed for the office of Under Secretary of State Ernest Davies, who was scheduled to represent Bevin at the meeting. The rebel Laborites warned Davies that "the Foreign Secretary should not strain the loyalty of his supporters...
...severe drag on Russian steel production is the fact that 95% of Russia's working iron deposits lie west of the Ural's industrial complex, and 85% of its coking-coal reserves lie east of it. Bringing coal and iron together to make steel puts a heavy strain on Russia's inadequate transport system and slows down the growth of the steel industry...
Whatever the Chicago court's final decision, the color squabble would probably be carried to the U.S. Supreme Court. The delay enabled RCA to continue working to perfect its "dot sequential" color system. It would cause financial strain to CBS and inevitably postpone the mass production of CBS colorsets, adapters and converters. Though confident of ultimate victory, CBS President Frank Stanton recognized that it might come too late. Said Stanton: "Daddy may be proven innocent after he's hanged-that's the possibility...
...Garden. A 28-year-old California housewife, mother of three was relieved of the ileum and all but two feet of the jejunum, leaving her (with the duodenum) about three feet of small intestine. After two years, her only complaint is diarrhea, usually traceable to fatigue or strain. She does all the housework and scrabbles in the garden without ill effects...
...urged, diddling him out of his savings and earnings at the rate of 19/6 in the ?, plus the Death Duties. In Ireland, he might have been reduced to the alcoholism which had frightened him as a child in the life of his father. And there was a second strain of Irish genius which can be developed to a higher pitch outside that country: the role of the stage-Irishman. Whenever that genius has submitted to the discipline of the theater, it has been irresistible. Behind Shaw the dramatist were Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde...