Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they were few and the Negroes myriad; they were stubborn because only by convincing themselves that the Negro was somehow inferior, like a pet or a horse, could they justify their long crime of refusing to recognize him as an equal human being; they were violent, partly from the strain of sustaining this myth, partly from fear that if the myth was once cracked, at any point or in any context, the whole perilously maintained social structure would collapse...
What They Meant. The trouble began with a brief abstract in the A.M.A. Journal of a report on work done by a University of Oregon team of researchers. Delivered in San Francisco, the detailed paper described experiments done on a particular and unusual form of cancer in a particular strain of laboratory rats. Like some human cancers, this one will grow faster if the animals are given certain hormones, and will all but disappear under doses of other hormones...
...than normal mice. But in the irradiated mice the litters were smaller, more babies were stillborn, and more were cannibalized by the parents. Except for a few cases of hydrocephalus, Spalding found no malformed offspring in 32 generations; on the other hand, the non-radiated control group developed a strain of bald mice that was a spontaneous mutation...
...suffered two fractured ribs, three broken vertebrae, and assorted cuts and bruises. He would probably be out of action for quite a while, but there were no neurological injuries, no paralysis, no immediate need for surgery. Marvella Bayh was in good condition; Senator Bayh had a severe muscle strain. But Ed Moss, one of Teddy's ablest, most faithful friends, died of brain injuries during surgery. Zimny had died before help came...
...Because the jury box and bench are far apart, he found that he could confer with attorneys off the record without having to dismiss the jury -a time-wasting maneuver in other courtrooms. He also noted a "calmness and ease" during trials because "everybody could see and hear without strain." He liked especially his more direct view of the witness stand ("I can practically take a head-on look") and his eyeline relation to the jury ("The judge can look from one juror to another, and each juror understands that he is being spoken to individually"). So many of Judge...