Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Nixon, as his earnest face loomed up on the nation's TV screens, "I come before you tonight as a candidate for the vice presidency and as a man whose honesty and integrity has been questioned." His voice was level and he showed no sign of the strain...
...instant the convention held its silence. Each man suddenly leaned out. Something weird had happened in the Yard--which was their present world. Then from somewhere, from some window, Eaton knew not which, and it never will be known, there issued a second echo of Kent's lamentive strain. . . Then a third. . . . Next a chorus. . . . You know the rest in the talk you have heard. The chant has reverberated through the decades. At the time of the Harvard Tercentenary, in 1936, the headlines read "Rinehart Himself in Town...
Exam period is far away, but for those who remember three hours of squint and strain in Fogg during exam periods past, the delay cannot be too long. The lighting, designed especially for courses using slides, features a brilliantly illuminated stage, and overhead spotlight fixtures, equipped with what seem to be sixty-watt bulbs. The paltry number of foot-candles falling from above usually get lost in the dirty greenish decor...
Washington and London guessed that Peking was disappointed because there was no mention of Russian industrial or financial aid, which the Chinese need to withstand the strain of the Korean war. But some of Russia's top military, production and trade experts had taken part in the talks. Very likely, Chou had got less than he wanted-but more than the communiqués admitted...
...Stalin and his colleagues are ready to face another 10 to 15 years of cold war, in the confident belief that the Eastern bloc can stand the strain better than the Western world. They feel certain that Russian economy can provide both guns and butter...