Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the age-old influence of the United States on Canadian polities, Conway contrasted the development of the two systems. "The United States," said Conway, "was an expression in the New World of the Liberal-Whig tradition in British politics, whereas Canada expressed the Conservative-Tory strain...
...Three players alone preside over the audience of baroque music aficionados left behind four years ago by Wanda Landowska, the harpsichord's high priestess. Today's masters are Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe and Valenti, and their tight little world is tense with competition: vassal harpsichordists nourish the strain by running joyously to one master with rumors of another's poor recital. Valenti has little taste for this suspicious sport; he would, if anything, prefer to withdraw...
...speeds are lower-but soaring is no sport for the fainthearted. In full view of 1,000 onlookers at Junin, veteran Dutch Pilot Arie Breunissen dived into a ther mal too quickly and watched in horror as the left wing of his fragile, British-built Skylark disintegrated under the strain. Swooping into a tight spin, the stricken craft plummeted earthward. Just 500 ft. above the ground, Breunissen bailed out. Shaken, and his face cut by his shattered Plexiglass canopy, he parachuted to the ground-arriving just behind his gaudy yellow glider, which crashed only 50 ft. away...
Citing the goal of regional federation as a common strain of nationalist ideology seems slightly less invalid than including the single-party state. True, large regional groups are advocated by all the writers who comment on them, but no one yet has accomplished anything to move regional federation beyond the stage of aspiration...
...January, 1955, Albert B. Sabin inoculated 30 volunteers at Ohio's Chillicothe Reformatory, with a weakened strain of live polio virus. Just three months later, Jonas E. Salk announced that he had successfully tested his dead polio virus vaccine on 440,000 elementary school students, and the United States Public Health Service (PHS) licensed six companies to produce the Salk vaccine. Since then U.S. polio cases, both paralytic and non-paralytic, have fallen from 28,985, in 1955, to 650 reported...