Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exam-period strain and lack of pracice caught up with the hockey team Saturday, and Princeton beat Harvard for the first time in 13 years. Blowing an early lead, the Crimson lost, 6-3, at Baker Rink...
...Squeak. The pressures of domestic and foreign opinion combined to make Johnson's decision to resume bombing one of the most arduous he has had to face in his 26-month presidency. The strain was evident-though with as consummate a showman as Lyndon Johnson it was often difficult to tell to what extent his gloomy, remote bearing was assumed for political effect. He bolted from receptions unwontedly early. After a dinner at which Chief Justice Earl Warren was one of his guests of honor, the President was in such a hurry to return to his deliberations over Viet...
...Flint, the latest and most prodigal of hoke-and-dagger thrillers, is a takeoff on the spoofs that imitate James Bond movies, which already show the strain of excess spoofery. This leaves Flint Director Daniel Mann with little more to do than try the hypothesis that more and more will be funnier and funnier. Instead, the gimmickry congeals...
...Journey. The strain of the talks had told on Shastri. He looked weary and fatigued after signing the agreement. That night, going to bed at midnight, he hoped for a good sleep. But scarcely an hour later he staggered into the hallway of his villa, clutching his chest. Guards summoned his doctor, who immediately injected a stimulant. A team of Russian physicians rushed to his bedside, shot adrenalin directly into the heart. But nothing helped. At 61, Shastri was dead of a heart attack, his third in six years...
...Smith's sluggish lead-off leg of 2:02 in the two-mile relay squelched the quartet's record aspirations. Coach Bill McCurdy had to shuffle his relay squads after Sam Robinson pulled up with a muscle strain in the preliminaries of the dash...