Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Russians would not kill them, as though an order had gone out that there were to be no shootings by military units. They surged around armored cars, crying, "What are you doing here? This is our city. Go home! Shame on you!" The Russian soldiers showed the strain of their position, shouted back at the crowd, waved their arms, guns. Then, to shift the crowd, the Russians got their tanks moving, wheeled and skidded them on the sidewalks-showing how much they had recently learned about maneuvering tanks in city streets-chasing people back and forth. But they...
...making their dragging weight felt in every British home and factory. Three influential journals-the Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Economist-greeted his return by wondering, almost with one voice, whether Eden was up to his job. Wrote the Daily Telegraph, the most Tory of them all: "The strain will become greater, not less. If Sir Anthony can bear it, and give the leadership for which the country is crying out, well and good. If not, another must step into the breach...
Behind Dwight Eisenhower were the long, tiring campaign and the weeks of international strain. Ahead were the demands of rebuilding the Western alliance, a visit from India's Prime Minister Nehru, the inauguration ceremonies and the State of the Union message. In Augusta last week the President of the U.S. prepared for what lay ahead by relaxing from what lay behind...
...strain, however, proved too great. Winch, gears, cable, and elevator all crashed into the basement...
Gamal Abdel Nasser felt the strain too. From the night of the first Anglo-French air assault on his country, Egypt's strongman had remained constantly at his old revolutionary headquarters on Cairo's Gezira Island. Last week, plagued by a persistent sore throat, he moved back to his Cairo home. He had been averaging only three or four hours' sleep nightly, and had not helped matters by refusing to obey doctors' orders to stop smoking. All week he stayed indoors, and for the first time since the invasion, failed to keep up his almost daily...