Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear of Cuba's Fidel Castro, Trujillo has spent $50 million abroad for arms, including French tanks and Mystere jet fighters, and his usually solvent budget is under strain. Vice President Joaquin Balaguer admits that commercial credits against next year's sugar crop are high (reportedly $40 million). Two prime sources: the local branches of The Royal Bank of Canada and The Bank of Nova Scotia. The cost of living, long stable, jumped 20% from July to October...
...recent years, Bate said, even Honors students have often studied only two years of one language. This deficiency puts them under considerable strain to meet Department requirements of mastering three languages by the end of their second year of graduate study...
...Utah politician. "He doesn't woo his followers. You can't say that about any of the others." This complicates the task of the active candidates both in primaries and in backroom maneuvering, and increases the possibility of a stalemated convention. Stevenson could easily end the strain by endorsing another candidate, but he has not, and in that state of affairs his followers see hope and unspoken promise...
...with his left rudder in time, or inadvertently applied more right. The 707 flipped on its back. The gut-pounding stress was too much for the 248,000-lb. plane, and ordinarily the wings might have torn loose. But the 707 was designed to lose its engines under such strain, rather than its wings-and three engines ripped loose, plummeted to earth...
...legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn a foot from the center of the oak table. During minute-long deadlocks, noses began to bleed from the strain...