Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sometimes he partially succeeds. For example, a fading ingenue hurls "What have you got that I haven't?" at Ava Gardner, and is told by a mutual friend, "What she's got you can't spell, and what you have you used to have." But more often, the lines strain hard to evoke gasps of admiration; they produce only grunts of mystification. To prove that disaster has struck, a publicity agent says of a movie mogul, "I could tell something was wrong because he was eating as though the Labor Government had just been elected unanimously." It is not really...
...military counterpart [TIME, Nov. 1], but must he not hold himself accountable for an equal portion of this deplorable spectacle? Americans have a weakness for making heroes of all who "arrive"-movie stars, football players, etc. It is indeed regrettable that only a few so acclaimed can weather the strain without becoming stage-struck prima donnas. Generals and scientists are not exceptions . . . Many scientists now feature themselves as authorities on international and domestic politics, industrial and governmental organization, finance, family relations, and military security. [They] seem to feel insulted ... if their every opinion, on whatever subject, is not accepted without...
...only tests with everyone does have to take are those of the National Board of Medical Examiners. Students may present themselves for these two tests, which cover pre-clinical and clinical medicine respectively, during their second or third year. Yale strenuously attempts to eliminate an atmosphere of competitive strain, even on the National Board exams, and does not base recommendations or awards on the scores which students make...
This reputation and this influence are a summation of individual achievements, but the attainment of even individual goals involves tremendous effort and sometimes strain. To anyone familiar with the four-to-seven years required for the doctorate, it is obvious that there is little time left for financially-remunerative employment. Even Cambridge and Boston can seem like Winesburg, Ohio after years of sustained study and mounting financial restriction...
...years he doubled sales to $52 million and boosted the stock value 400%. Bunker now votes about 230,000 shares of Martin, enough for control. Does he plan to move on and cure some other ailing company? No, says Bunker: "It's too tiring. It puts an awful strain on you. This is for me. I like this...