Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...education to do a good job making beds? And is it any more "noble" to bake a cake than to teach a child to read? Not all members of the profession have the intellectual sanctuary of a typewriter and a poetic mind to retire to when the emotional strain of being mentally unemployed becomes too much...
Trying to run the government and pass legislation with that slim a margin will prove an immense strain-and, before too long, probably impossible. In 1950 Clement Attlee's Labor government won a majority of six, and Attlee was forced to call another election within 18 months, which Labor lost, starting the long Tory reign. During those 18 months, politicians used to crack: "Suppose there's an important vote in the Commons and a taxi carrying a full load of Labor M.P.s breaks down-out goes the government." As things are now, the taxi need not even carry...
...France, as well as the Queen of England, was learning that a state visit to a volatile land can involve some risks. French officials had decided that the chances of trouble during Charles de Gaulle's trip to Latin America were minimal. If his health could take the strain (a question to everyone except the astonishing old man himself), the trip should provide a string of modest but unbroken successes. After two weeks and six countries, the educated guess was more or less on target. In the third week, trouble materialized. De Gaulle's visit to Argentina...
...work of a Supreme Court Justice is so intellectually demanding, that when Potter Stewart arrived from a grueling enough U.S. appeals court in 1958, his first reaction was, "I can't do this." In 1962, after only five years on the bench, the strain forced Justice Charles Whittaker to retire, leaving the field to rugged ex-Football Star Byron White. Though the Court has overruled itself about 150 times, the big headache remains the search for principles that lower courts can follow as long as possible. Yet a Justice charged with being the final authority on issues as combustible...
...speaking ability to give him an opportunity to rest before a major address. Once he has introduced her, the crowd pleads that she say a few words, and this gives him time to hastily review the talk he will give. Unlike her husband she never seems to show the strain of the day's hard campaigning...