Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, nerves jangled with the strain of uncertainty and bad news. Once, the Senate was startled when a grey, hooded figure rose in the gallery, intoning sepulchrally: "I am here to warn you." The lady, who said she was "the phantom of the past," was hustled off by Capitol guards, for mental observation...
...time had not yet come when the industry needed to be put on full war production; to do so, without full wartime controls, would strain the whole economy to the cracking point. But the U.S. did need to step up aircraft production to meet the minimum needs of even a limited war. Plainly the time for it to start doing...
...sneeze, then you will either kill his love by shooting wads of blotting paper at him or, if the paper stands the strain, air pressure inside your head will blow your brains...
Succeeding legislative proposals with which University officials became concerned include: the Barnes Bill, the Fair Education Practices Bill (the University opposed it because of the strain it might put on its office force), the Sullivan Bill, and several measures filed this year which deal with control of communist infiltration in teaching
...mile test of June 23 was "normal." Reports that the three oar, Ollie Iselin, was to be replaced by Ted Anderson because of injuries turned out to be rumor when trainer Dr. Harrison Kennard, in Cambridge for his 25th reunion, testified that Iselin had fully recovered from a slight strain within 24 hours...