Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strain of two games in three days against powers like Denver and Michigan Tech may alone be too much for the Crimson. Terry Flaman, George McManama, and Joe Cavanagh will all be playing with shoulder injuries. McManama and Flaman have not shown the effects of their injuries, but Cavanagh has been blanked in the last two games...
When asked how much strain the new complication was putting on the former President's already-weakened heart, the doctors answered: "Considerable...
Without stretching historical parallel too far, one can perceive in world events today certain startling resemblances to those times devoid of international order. A distinct strain of nasty, small-scale, almost personal violence among nations is emerging. The taking of hostages, for example, is becoming more and more popular: witness North Korea's use and abuse of the captured Pueblo crewmen or China's 19-month detention of Reuter's Correspondent Anthony Grey. There is also Ghana's jailing of the crewmen of two Soviet trawlers on suspicion of espionage. More recently, armed...
...CLINCHER to why rock might be dead is the whole thing got out of control. The hippy is dead because people piled into San Francisco so fast that a great unnaturalness arose. God is dead because populations started multiplying so fast that it became too much of a strain for God to care about everybody. Rock is dead because records started going so fast that the industry let its screws loose...
...cornered laboratory rat will simply back away. Wild Norways ruthlessly kill intruder rats; their amiable laboratory cousins merely sniff at strangers. Wild rats survive by their wits; captive rats can and do survive as near idiots. On the other hand, it is possible that the laboratory has produced a strain efficient in disentangling its toes from ½-in. wire mesh-definitely a survival factor in captivity...