Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the presidents drew up their Agreement, it looked as if they wanted to reduce football in status to that of baseball, for instance. For this program had such revealing paragraphs as "They (the conditions of the Agreement) require that undue strain upon players and coaches be eliminated and that they be permitted to enjoy the game as participants in form of recreational competition rather than as professional performers in public spectacles...
...aboard his DC-6 after enduring the 92° heat in Phoenix, Ariz, last week, his face was flushed, his voice hoarse and his temperature up to nearly 100°. His friend and trip physician, Dr. Malcom Todd, made the diagnosis: weakened by a solid month's worry, strain and work, with only a day and a half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile swing through the length and breadth...
...Mammon have long been partners in Kyoto, whose centuries-old Buddhist and Shinto temples are a potent magnet for worshipers and sightseers from all over the world, but changing times have exacted a telling strain on the partnership. When they were cut off from government subsidy by the MacArthur constitution, which divorced Japanese church and state, most of Kyoto's temples began charging admission fees in order to support themselves. The result was a bonanza of tax-free riches. This delighted the Buddhist and Shinto priests but filled Kyoto's Mayor Gizo Takayama, a Congregationalist, with ill-concealed...
...stood a newly recruited ex-Kiel Canal pilot, Captain Helmut H. Wilters, taking copious notes. He was one of 50 to 60 volunteers from several countries being rush-trained to replace the departed pilots. Shiaty tutored him meticulously. When the Italian helmsman-changed every hour on account of the strain-just once failed to follow a command, Shiaty called to the mate: "Another helmsman...
...anxiety over situations outside the family; lack of time to spend together because of excessive fatigue or because of the amount of time spent at work and shopping. Thus, the family is, to some extent, a refuge from these external events, but these events in themselves put a strain on family life...