Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cattle breeding, the name of the game is to improve the strain. Thus ranchers think nothing of importing desirable cattle from halfway round the world to crossbreed with their own herds. In New Zealand, however, cattlemen recently ran afoul of the country's strict animal quarantine laws in trying to obtain prized French breeding animals. Now, using sophisticated biological manipulation, they have overcome the problem...
...grew until they made up the majority of the project's population. The children of these deprived families formed street gangs, terrorized tenants and vandalized buildings. Because families earned no money, they could not pay existing rents. Rents were lowered, while maintenance costs went up, causing such a strain on the PHA that funds that would have been used to keep up smaller public-housing projects around the city had to be diverted into Pruitt-lgoe...
...This book, written for his son who lives in New York, celebrates Morris' boyhood in Yazoo before World War II. It is drenched in crawdads, squirrel dumplings, Delta woodlands, and Peck's-bad-boy jokes. But Morris eases out of realism into fantasy and back with no strain, and it's nice to think that somebody more contemporary than Huck Finn could remember it all that...
...with guards while three floors above the lawyers worked out the details with Prosecutor Edward Fitz-patrick and Judge Morris Pashman. A detailed scenario was agreed upon, and last week in court Smith went through the routine. Though normally a man of closely guarded emotions, he became flushed and strained during the judge's questioning. Did he murder Victoria Zielinski? "I did," he said in a voice so low that spectators had to strain to hear. Was anyone else involved? "No." After dozens of other questions nailed down details, the case was closed. "I'm satisfied beyond...
...succumbing to angst? Not according to a British psychologist, who asserts, surprisingly, that Americans seem to handle stress and strain reasonably well. In his new book, Personality and National Character, Dr. Richard Lynn points out that, compared with the Japanese, Germans, Austrians and Italians, "Americans don't commit suicide in any large numbers, nor do they drink very much. I don't think they're an especially neurotic group...