Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presence of the toxic Mahoney strain as the representative of Type I virus." 4. "Continuing difficulties of production...
Most of the Accident Room work is hardly this exciting, Cooper says. The nervous strain of alternating between continuous waiting and concentrated action leaves the Volunteer weary after his three-hour period on duty. "The excitement doesn't leave you keyed up, but just exhausted," he says. "Seeing people in agony, you think that you're as far above animals as they are above inert matter. The suffering person has no defenses left, his inhibitions are gone. Often he seems to lose the dignity that makes him human...
...almost like a man's, laid together heavily in prayer. Her head is slightly raised -but demanding, not beseeching, God to hear. Her shoulders are hunched in heavy, earthbound determination. She has a natural concentration, like an animal's. Eye and body and brain are united without strain in simple existence...
...performance. At the first run-through she had such power that a critical audience of theatrical professionals was sobbing unashamedly at the final line. At the Boston opening the critics cried "tremendous," but one of them fairly noted that she was sometimes "a little childish." Under the strain of the huge part her voice gave out, and one night before the show she broke down and wept in a panic. "I feel as if I'm climbing a great mountain," she told a friend, "and I'm bruised and hurt. In my part a simple country girl...
...than it used to be ... When a promising young business executive decides that he won't try for the $64,000 question, when he decides that he isn't interested in becoming production manager because the increased net just isn't worth the extra effort and strain, then everyone is the loser...