Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles and plan to go nationwide next year. They hope to make a profit while they can, for there is an obvious limit to the amount of repeat business the 1520s will do. "You could not come here every night," says Bloom. "You could not stand the strain...
...existence of such beasts in Loch Ness would not entirely strain credibility. Believers argue that large saltwater creatures could have been trapped in Scotland's lakes when they were cut off from the sea at the end of the last ice age. Doubters reply that it is by no means sure that Loch Ness was ever linked to the sea, that there is hardly enough food in the loch to support such leviathans and that in any case, there would have to be at least 20 animals in a breeding herd-too many for the imaginations of even...
Dillard recounts the story of a black man who got himself into trouble by fleeing from some policemen who were attempting to serve him with a restraining order. "They goin' to strain me," he told the judge later. Because Black English does not pronounce the initial syllable in the word, he interpreted restrain as strain, a word that means 'beat' in Black English...
Provided gullibility to the flash of the city is another traditional literary motif, and Gegal exploits it to the hill. The townspeople strain to believe that the vain, petulant, but eminently purchaseable (and therefore not so terrifying after all) dandy is a real inspector general. At the same time Khlestakov screams with fear that these locals are going to incarcerate him in their jail. But Khlestakov and his manservant Osip, are the ones who group the situation and take advantage of the confusion. Eventually, all of the feuding factions are victimized by the liar from the city...
Then, too, there is a strong strain of complacency at Thompson. Says the agency's $150,000-a-year president, Henry M. Schachte: "If we lose an account, the tendency has been to look at us and ask what's wrong. But why not look at the clients and ask what's wrong with them?" This Thompson-knows-best philosophy has irritated clients. Explaining why he pulled part of his account from the agency, Henry Ford II said: "Thompson got to thinking it was part of the Ford Motor...