Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wolfson's star pupil, the first with a quality fit for critics. After showing documents to prove that she has no structural abnormality in her voice mechanism, she sings the high notes of a coloratura selection, then switches to her male tenor voice for Ridi, Pagliaccio without apparent strain. Says Wolfson: "The famous larynx of gold of great singers is just a legend. Everyone possesses one." In Wolfson's dream Jenny and her co-pupils will be the first with a new kind of voice; it may have to be called an omnitone...
Rehabilitation Needed. Yet there are a few signs of the strain. He suffers from recurrent headaches. Sometimes Gladys Hall wakes up in the early morning to see her husband lying in bed, staring at the ceiling as he worries his way through the day's problems. In the months ahead, as Hall strives to keep the elephant on the path, the problems and the headaches will increase. "Are you running scared?" asked a reporter last week. Replied Chairman Hall: "We're running hard...
...sinking after sinking, with a sailor's relish that keeps the pages turning at a speed uncommon for readers of sound history. Several writers-notably Commander Edward L. Beach in Submarine! (TIME, June 9, 1952) and Run Silent, Run Deep (TIME, April 4)-have graphically described the fearful strain and special terrors of the submariner's life. Author Morison, with his painstaking accuracy and his historian's gusto, is a ship of a different class. Disdaining fiction, and finding his excitement in verified facts, he reaches port, ties to his berth and reports: mission accomplished ; this...
...Leach also had to teach his two regular courses on property at the Law School, in addition to all the problems he had in straightening out his new program. The strain became so great that in February, 1955, he had to "just go away for three weeks." By then the program was firmly established...
...hemisphere's military strongmen. The crash of Argentina's Juan Peron showed with unnerving clarity how swiftly the most deeply entrenched tyrant can be destroyed by aroused public opinion and disenchanted military leaders. By last week strongman regimes in four other nations were showing signs of strain...