Word: strains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Owen's sarcasm is usually received in the good spirit with which it is intended. Last year, however, the strain proved too much for one lonely Anglophile who had strayed into History 142. As Owen was busily ripping into the British aristocracy, the student rose from his set, and pointing his finger dramatically, accused the professor of being unfair to the upper classes. Such incidents are indeed rare, and his lectures receive almost legendary accolades. Owen finds Harvard men "not a particularly docile lot, but reasonable when backed into a corner...
...beyond dispute. And in a larger sense, the "non-strategic trade" idea itself is just a convenient fiction. Every fishing trawler Britons make for Russia releases Communist manpower for other, deadlier tasks. And on the other side of the coin, every product the West denies Russia means an added strain on the Soviet economy. The past year has shown that internal economic crises may result in a softening in Soviet foreign policies. By bolstering the Soviet economy, the West creates its own problems at the conference tables...
When their father and mother both had major operations that put a strain on the family budget, Gresham Marmion, the elder of the two, dropped out of high school and took a job so that brother Bill could finish. Bill went on to Rice Institute, where he studied engineering before deciding in his second year to switch to the ministry. He graduated with a B.A. degree and entered Virginia Theological Seminary...
Another baby came last year, and the strain grew too much. The Ramies moved out, and last week their priceless rooms were empty except for the Picassos on the walls. But Jean still pays the rent for his old home. He thinks it is a nice place to visit...
...Guam venture puts scarcely a strain on Engel's ingrained optimism, which met a far stiffer test in 1942 when, as an Army sergeant, he spent a weekend in Boston and was nearly burned to death in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. He spent three years recovering in Army hospitals, underwent 45 operations, still wears a glove over a badly scarred hand. Engel typically found a silver lining: "You know, I must have been damn lucky. I had orders to ship out on the U.S.S. Dorchester, which got sunk with the loss of most of the men on board...