Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Variety, reporting that "viewers throughout had the feeling it was live TV," hailed the show as probably answering "many of video's most complex problems." Convinced that television's future now lies in Hollywood, Director Telford saw the Fairbanks method doing away with a lot of strain and split-second timing. He predicted cheerily: "It will take the ulcers out of the business...
Pravda hinted that "international relations were entering a new stage," attributed this to the strong impact of the new Sino-Soviet alliance (see below). Red Fleet accused the U.S. of rejecting "all proposals toward lessening the international strain," then sniffed a "modification" in the wind, because U.S. public opinion was more & more ranging up against U.S. policy...
...rate of $10,000 a minute, gaunt, grey Economist Edwin G. Nourse last week issued a stern warning. Said President Truman's former chief economic adviser: the Administration's reckless spending under its "pie in the sky" philosophy would, unless checked by tough-minded slashes, lead to "strain and possible breakdown" of the U.S. economy...
...year was 1914 and Monica Baldwin was 17 when she took the veil of a Roman Catholic religious order and vanished behind convent walls. Ten years later she began to think she had made a mistake. Nevertheless, for 18 years more of inward strain and stress she lived the life of the convent...
...Flowers for Shiner the strain is notably weakened: plenty of people will still take Llewellyn, but few are apt to be knocked off their feet. But in Hollywood there may well be an epidemic of ecstasy; a clod could scarcely fail to make an exciting movie out of this book. How can a director miss with a story whose heroine is a truck...