Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...version is slangy, a bit hammy in spots, and not likely to strain the minds of readers. Highet hopes that it would have pleased Menander, "who loved people, like Shakespeare and Moliere. and so transformed Greek comedy from its original fantasy into reality...
Last week, breaking under the strain, Giulia Orano begged the Roman press to help rescue her and her husband from "terror and desperation . . . decay, disorder and dirt." Only the Communist L'Unitd gave her space and grudging, lukewarm support. In all of Italy there are 300 leprosy victims confined and under treatment, but an estimated 2,000 are hiding out (and therefore going untreated) because they fear a fate like Orano...
...nauseating dose of toilet-bowl cleaner. Farmer C.C. ("Crip") Reyer, 42, whose car looked like one seen at the jail, entered a hospital with a "nervous breakdown." Farmer Arthur Smith Jr., 32, went to a hospital with a "cerebral hemorrhage," which his doctor said was brought on by the strain of FBI questions. Smith later turned out to have suffered no hemorrhage...
Betancourt is still firmly committed to socialism but will try to sell off or shut down the worst of the money losers. He also plans such overdue measures as building hospitals and schools (the country is 65% illiterate), which will strain even the oil-rich budget. The army still has tanks, and the Communists still could muster 80,000 well-organized rioters. But working for Romulo Betancourt are his honesty, his political savvy and his country's deep hunger for peace...
...movie cliche--complete with goose-stepping, bombing and all the rest of it--as the beauty of Anne Frank's character dissolves into naughty cuteness, we are left with eight people who flirt, fight, and fret in a disappointingly usual way. The play managed, without ever seeming to strain, to suggest how sustained tension and continuous confinement would affect them, while the film injects these changes artificially...