Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poetry is riddled with Pound, his theories have their roots in the same man. But underlying both is a strain of American bigotry which is as old as time--anti-Semitism. Wang becomes perceptibly agitated when the subject is brought up. His disclaimers are pathetic and contradictory. For near the surface of his quarrel with modern America is the recurrent theme--"Communism is a Jewish movement. . . . Talmudic filth. . . . Ike Eisenhower, Max Rabb, Col. Kuhn, Felix Frank-furter are a bane and a plague on our people. . . . usurer...
...flat broke. It had only about $15,000 left to last the rest of the year. Casey Stengle was very sorry, but he was also glad the whole thing was over. "After all," said he, "this has been going on for ten years, and it was a terrible strain...
...Soldier Doher took his loss like a gentleman, but such defeats arouse national protest in France. Recently an aviation expert flubbed three questions in a row. His Brawn, Swimming Champion Aldo Eminente, saved him twice. But the strain on Aldo's stroke was too keen. On his third try, Aldo slowed down and their joint jackpot went down the pool drain. From the nation's 700,000 TV rooms came scores of outraged calls and letters...
...tense hours before the first U.S. satellite took off for outer space, no missile-beat newsman was under greater strain than Major General Donald N. (for Norton) Yates, U.S.A.F., handsome, gregarious commander of Florida's Air Force Missile Test Center. For it was Meteorologist Yates, 48, who established the uniquely personal working relationship with Cape Canaveral newsmen which last week averted the ballyhoo and garbledy-gook that witlessly inflated the first Vanguard flop into a propaganda debacle for the U.S. As it turned out, last week's detailed, accurate coverage of the U.S. Army's satellite triumph...
...store heir. It took five more years of court fights before he was solidly in control. For his trouble, Bob Young got control of $2 billion worth of assets, including the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette and Missouri Pacific. But in the intense strain of the battle, he also suffered a nervous breakdown. His sandy hair had turned white, and at 45 he looked 15 years older...