Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, it is a series of stories, often fantastic incidents that strain the bounds of credulity...
...recent series of staphylococcus infections at Boston City Hospital, Dr. Finland found that three times out of four, the germs came of a strain that had learned to defy penicillin. Since many of the patients had never had penicillin before, the resistance had not developed during their treatment; they must have picked up germs already resistant, from other patients who had been dosed with penicillin. Most staphylococcus infections are minor (e.g., boils), but even so, said Dr. Finland, "there was an appreciable number of fatalities among the cases which did not respond to penicillin...
...program featured two Bach contatas, Nos. 51 and 202, for soprano and chamber orchestra. It was a taxing assignment for the soloist and Miss Lunn showed signs of strain near the end of the program. Her voice is by no means powerful and her approach to the music is restrained and undramatic. The opening of the secular cantata Weichet ner, betrubte Schatten, for example, dragged on quite feebly and missed altogether the suggestion of mysterious forces of nature at work during the changing of the seasons...
...several paragraphs is the assertion that the Old Guard Republicans' enthusiasm for Kennedy is no more than a fanatic attempt to purge Lodge. The first statement seems plausible, the second unexceptionable, yet together they clash. If Lodge is the cipher Mr. Landis claims he is, why should the Taftites strain themselves so for his defeat? Surely, the Republican irresponsible would not brave the derision inevitably attending their support of a party-line Democrat unless Lodge threatened their power...
Shake with cracked ice and strain...