Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hooton said that it would be better for women of about 25 years to marry the "sub-adult males of 19 or 20." However, he added, "this might impose too much of a strain upon female continence and lead to trial marriages or male concubinage. Some would regard such a result as socially undesirable...
Seated a few yards from him, the visitor does not notice the marks of strain-the extended eyelids, the twitching right eye, the flaccid skin-but sees only the hard, skeptical eyes, the restless energy of the small frame. Rhee is the last of the old heroes of the Korean struggle for independence, a man with long memories. Just outside Seoul lie the ruins of Westgate prison, where the Emperor Koh-Jong's jailers spliced Rhee's fingers between wooden wands which the jailers twisted until his fingers were almost ripped from the joints; there he was imprisoned...
...other commissioners did not come to any meetings. In late December, a little more than a month after the commission had begun work, one of its eleven members,* Businessman Robert W. Johnson, board chairman of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings, baby products), resigned because his health would not stand the strain. Included in the commission's final report last week was Johnson's parting shot-a memo in which he rated the services "in terms of cooperation toward manpower savings." His ratings: Marine Corps-"Excellent"; Air Force-"Cooperative and open to greater progress"; Army-"Spotty, large areas of resistance...
...opposite, said Dulles; a strong West Germany would provide such an "attraction" to East Germany and other satellites that it might in time pry them away from the Eastern orbit. Perhaps even now, in the convulsions of a new purge, said Dulles, the Communists are showing "stress and strain." Dulles made the shrewd move of conferring with Socialist Party Leader Erich Ollenhauer (the only opposition leader he saw on the trip), listened to the Socialist's counterarguments, then firmly told him that the U.S. would consider no alternatives-it is the European Army or no German rearmament...
...works as hard at his titleholder's role as an actor who follows the famed Stanislavsky method of living the part. Working in front of a big mirror, he studies his form; after a stiff workout, he again goes to the mirror to see if his face reflects strain. He studies the opposition almost as closely. After a trial heat, when he knows he has to race the same runners again, Whitfield will turn to his closest pursuer and shake him by the hand. Whitfield admits: "I congratulate him, surely, but I study his face. How tired does...