Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the Guild Products' output-earmarked for Marines in Korea-was up to specifications. But 15.000 of the company's bandages were made on defective machines, and were so cut that they would fall apart under the slightest strain. Navy inspectors were shown only good bandages. An indignant Guild Products foreman tipped off the FBI; if he had not done so, the faulty bandages would not have been discovered until they reached the Korean front...
...field is worth five in planning? Soldiers thought that kind of talk should only be heard after a minimum defense has been created. Diplomats reported that yes, they think they can detect a gradual relaxation in Russian pressure. Economists agreed that Europe's brittle economy cannot stand the strain of faster rearmament...
...Voge-ler, the Western world has also come to realize that relentless and refined pressure on body & mind can make the firmest anti-Communist admit to outlandish offenses. What still remains puzzling is why Communist trials, so carefully stage-managed as spectacles, can be so blatantly inept as to strain the credulity of a high-school boy. Did the Communists really expect the Czechoslovaks to believe the absurd conspiracies confessed so abjectly at the recent Slansky trial...
...Neurosurgeon Oscar Sugar had four surgeons to help him with the heads while two others handled transfusions; there were two anesthetists, two pediatricians and four nurses. For nearly ten hours they worked, cutting a little here, retracting there, stitching and always transfusing. Rodney, the little one, stood the strain better; Roger was in shock three times...
KOMEKON's progress is disturbingly impressive, but the strain, the sacrifice, the sabotage and the suffering is also immense -and sizable enough for the Communists themselves to acknowledge. From their own propaganda broadcasts, from hour after monotonous hour of "selfcriticism" at the Czech purge trials, from intelligence studies of East Europe's censored, servile press last week, came these portents of KOMEKON's troubles...