Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many other microorganisms must have got into Omega West's deadly water; only the Pseudomonas survived. Perhaps the Pseudomonas have natural resistance to radiation. More likely, under the bombardment of Omega's radiation, normal Pseudomonas underwent mutation, producing a special strain capable of surviving in this atomic blast...
...Soviet Premier is sincere in proposing total disarmament with firm guarantees and complete inspection at every stage, the West is virtually morally compelled to accept. But acceptance and realization of total disarmament, as many fear and Khrushchev perhaps hopes, will severely strain an American economy in which more than half the national budget goes into defense...
...British went ahead 6 to 4 when Taylor took the 220 in 21.9. Yale's Dave Bain was leading with 70 yards to go but pulled up with a muscle strain. The absence of Eli Steve Snyder, out with glanduler fever, hurt the Americans here...
...ministers and other senior officials were fired from their jobs. The causes of the shakeup, though not divulged by Peking, seemed clear: the humiliating failure of "the great leap forward," the enforced revision of phony production statistics (TIME, Sept. 7), popular antipathy to the vaunted rural communes, and growing strain between Red China's Communist Party and army...
...Church acknowledges that the most tested faith may be the strongest, that people may grow spiritually under tension; but the Church has no faith in strain per se. And certainly a continuous process of questioning will not in itself appear as a positive good, either to the Catholic Church or to Catholics...