Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students don't have any way to relieve themselves of the strain around here, their minds go blank," Saxe continued...
Some 80 years ago, a German dogcatcher named Louis Dobermann determined to breed a new strain of dog that would combine the agility of a terrier, the strength of a shepherd and the grace of a greyhound. Assisted by two friends, a gravedigger and a bell ringer, Dobermann interbred pinschers, shepherds, rottweilers and black and tan terriers, to get an intelligent, powerful new breed that won distinction as a war dog in both World Wars and as a "seeing eye" for the blind...
Twin Rodney was still listed as in "critical" condition, and would remain so until his brain could be entirely covered with skin flaps to guard against infection. Doctors had pumped half a dozen antibiotics into Rodney, using different combinations to prevent the growth of a resistant strain of germs. They were relieved last week when he got over a mouth infection. But they would not relax until Rodney had another operation to cover his brain...
...reported outbreaks of "respiratory infection," which some called grippe and some called influenza. The chances were that in most cases the disease was caused by the same virus that the Army's laboratories had isolated: influenza, type A' (pronounced, and often written "A prime"). If no other strain of flu virus shows up, there should be little occasion for alarm, since this variety of A' is one which rarely causes serious illness...
Last week, playing in the $10,000 San Diego Open, Mangrum finally showed the strain of his recent winning spree. After a fine opening-round 68, he slipped to a fourth-place finish ($840). (The winner, just as Mangrum predicted: up & coming Tommy Bolt, 34, unknown two years ago.) But Mangrum, who once said of Ben Hogan, "the little man is the only one in golf I've ever feared." is still the man to beat in any tournament he enters...