Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months-long strain of decisions, uncertainties and criticisms was too much...
...union's pocketbook after paying for Hall's defense and Bridges' frequent court appearances to fight deportation to Australia. But it springs also from the union's suspicion that there lies a limit beyond which even the I.L.W.U., for its own security, ought not to strain Hawaii's sugar and pineapple economy...
...have taken a bolder stand for principle and those who blamed him for allowing a Negro to get into the university in the first place. He began to receive anonymous phone calls accusing him of being a "nigger lover." Gradually, his trustees began to turn against him, and the strain became too much...
Jolliffe's startling conclusion: "Stress and strain, physical indolence, obesity, luxury living or tobacco play but a minor role in producing a high coronary heart disease rate under 65 years of age"-unless a high intake of saturated fats is added to these factors. He offered these dietary guides for voting-age men and postmenopausal women...
Conceits & Quiddities. The strain left deep marks on the character and writings of poor Charles Lamb. He drowned his sorrows in drink, diluted his tragedy with splashes of nervous, tense humor, indulged in "conceits and quiddities" that might grate on some modern sensibilities. His letters make better reading than the essays he wrote under the name of "Elia" (anagram for "A Lie"). This selection by T. S. Matthews, onetime managing editor of TIME, is shrewdly contrived to show why Lamb was not merely pitied for his sufferings but loved as well for his goodness. Indeed, the most remarkable thing about...