Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of the Negro race ... We are far truer friends to the Negro than the Yankee zealots who seek to cram down our throats a principle we will never accept . . . The end of segregation can only result in a mongrel race, as time goes by. Thank God, the blood strain of the South is the purest in the world...
...promises to all, nor in bribes to a few, nor in threats to any. It is a program inspired by zeal for the common good, dedicated to the welfare of every American family-whatever its means of livelihood may be, or its social position, or its ancestral strain, or its religious affiliation...
Creatures of Destiny. It was a year in which the so-called big powers, Eastern and Western alike, seemed less the shapers of destiny than its creatures. The change in the hands which governed the two greatest powers brought a strange sense of indecisiveness to world affairs. The strain of the cold war brought hesitations and serious arguments to the Western Alliance. The dawning of the thermonuclear age, with its talk of megaton bombs (equal to 1,000,000 tons of TNT), cast great and sudden doubt on the validity of the thinking and the plans of statesmen and diplomats...
...murderers have our best parole records, and we take into consideration the best measurements of the human mind now available. I don't wish to minimize the fear and apprehension of those whose lives have been threatened . . . but men who make such threats under the heat and strain of a courtroom rarely carry them out." Pedrini's potential victims could only hope the chairman was right-this time...
...from the strike, since it kept on its full 2,000-man staff at regular pay. The staffers spent their time putting out a complete newspaper, including ads, and 50 to 100 copies were printed for Trib files. After five days of this, the Trib decided that the financial strain was too great, and resumed publication. But the paper again was only an eight-page one that carried no ads. The Trib (circ. 353,411) figured that by selling about 2,000,000 copies, it might break even on current expenses from circulation receipts alone...