Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friction which might drive them apart. The possibilities of split are there. The difficulty is that those who talk most about exploiting the frictions (e.g., Britain's Bevanites) believe that the way to separate China and Russia is to woo China. The likelier method is to increase the strain on both nations...
...objective statement of fact to which lack of technical accomplishment adds a touch of fantasy. It is an idea of a person, a place, or an object, around which the artist, so to speak, puts a line. But such representation is rarely achieved without a certain stress and strain. Part of the charm of these pictures lies in the tension between a recalcitrant image and the artist's determination to get it down on his canvas or panel . . . Basically realistic, he manages to convey the specific character of his subject with a vividness which the academic painter, trained...
...little priest" has only one success, but that is enough to ruin him. With a magnificent effort of his whole soul-it is the finest scene in the film-he converts the lady of the manor. But the strain is too much for her heart, and she dies the same night. Everybody blames her confessor...
Using Fogg for exams is hardly necessary. Burr B with a larger seating capacity, is often free during exams scheduled in Fogg. While its alpine slope may seem a strain on the University's policy of minimum temptation, by scattering students properly, Burr could be just as safe. Moreover, both Burr A and B are equipped for slides and offer pin point lighting, so that students can write while the room is dark...
...mile: "Why not? I can run as fast as anybody else, and I feel that both my physical and mental conditioning are perfect." Halberg was modestly and remarkably uninterested in the four-minute mile: "I don't care one way or the other. I certainly won't strain myself to do it." In short, Halberg was just interested in winning...