Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their last game of the year, Yale defeated the freshmen 80 to 62. It was the team's first long trip and their second game in two days. They stayed with the Elis for three quarters, but the strain took its toll in the fourth as Yale pulled away...
...Algeria is not the right of peoples to self-determination, but the will of the West--or at least France--to defend itself against its mortal enemies. The O.A.S. unabashedly calls the Algerian fellaghas the enemies of the West, just as the Communists are. There is a strong racist strain in their position, of which they are not ashamed. They believe that the Communists, though espousing the nationalist cause of all the great unwashed of the colonial world, regard their "dirty little brothers" with scorn and not a little amusement. In this respect, Salan would say, the Communists...
...does little more than present a rough description of what he calls the culture of poverty," a culture he finds among the urban poor throughout the world. Marked by instability, over crowded living conditions, an inability to plan ahead, a frequent resort to violence as the only reaction to strain, the culture of poverty is nonetheless not without positive aspects. As corollaries of instability and irresponsibility, one finds a strong sense of freedom, an ability to live, if ephemerally, in the present, and a wonderful lack of concern for possessions (Lewis does not seem to think the latter so admirable...
Like Brothers. As the number of postponements rose to ten, many Americans, bleary-eyed from huddling early by their TV sets for the shot that never came, began to question the possibility that any human being could take such nervous strain without lowering his efficiency...
Proxy Immunity. To cross-check his findings, Dr. Miller took some newborn mice, removed their thymuses, and a week later grafted in new thymuses from mice of a different strain. These animals grew up to be healthy, but had a striking peculiarity. They accepted skin grafts from mice of the strain whose thymus glands they carried, while rejecting, in the normal way, other foreign tissues. Dr. Miller called it "immunological reactions by proxy." Despite the differences between man and mouse, the thymus gland probably plays much the same role in both species...