Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...either case, Britain might seriously strain its ties with the U.S. by refusing to participate. Recalling that only a few years ago the government argued with compelling logic against membership in the Common Market, the Sunday Telegraph concluded last week: "What is so sad is that once again we seem to be climbing reluctantly into a back seat on the bandwagon only after it has started to move...
...Petrosyan was afraid the champion would seize the psychological advantage. Petrosyan shifted tactics. "When he expected me to be warlike, I played as if nothing had happened." By the end of the fifth game, it was all tied up, 2½-2½*and both men showed the strain...
...thanks to uncrowded living conditions and abundant sea breezes-but the makeup of its population is a good cross section of the nation. And it has plenty of what Dr. Kandle calls the "win-it-now spirit," determination to wipe out old-fashioned TB completely before a new super strain of drug-defying bacilli can emerge...
...Carpenter Center at Harvard, as well as the principle government buildings in Chandigarh and the chapel of Ronchamp, show an attention to sculpturesque form, which clashes with strictly utilitarian considerations. This view of buildings as sculpture, though, is a development of another consistent strain in Le Corbusier's thought: architecture as the "masterly, correct and magnificent play" of primary forms -- spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes, and pyramids. This attention to form is evident even in his very first work, a house designed for his art teacher...
...have flirted with the idea of entering the first division. Under new manager Johnny Pesky, many wonderful changes have been made. For example, the Sox now run onto the filed. In fact, mirabile dictu, most of this New Breed even run out infield grounders. The effect of this unaccustomed strain is, as yet, undetermined. But, many old, seasoned observers fear that it may prove disastrous...