Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lissome, leggy, striking, Joan, 36, ought to be a visible asset to any campaign. On the hustings she does her part diligently. The last election, for Ted's re-election to the Senate in 1970, fought in the shadow of Chappaquiddick, was very clearly a strain on her; yet she gamely made the rounds of banquets and teas. Says Kathy Beatty, one of her closest friends: "I wondered for a while how she was going to get through those rough times, but she did it. That was when I felt she had moxie...
...felt he had the rat on the run. No more. British health authorities have discovered that brown "house" rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Wales and black "ship" rats (Rattus rattus) on Liverpool's docks now eat warfarin as casually as if it were an appetizer. Clearly a new immune strain has developed-the super...
Throughout, Wouk confronts great personages headon. His research has been massive; yet a sense of strain afflicts conversations with the likes of Hitler, Göring and Roosevelt. Did Wouk invent or acquire from some historical footnote that bit about the President's martinis? ("This is an excellent martini," Pug says to a beaming F.D.R. "It sort of tastes like it isn't there. Just a cold cloud.") Hitler's nervous little knee kick is familiar, but what about those "snatching, greedy fingers" as the Führer gobbles iced cakes at a reception? There...
Captain Charlie Thomas and sophomore Felix Adedeji will both start for the Crimson but their performances will both be hampered by leg injuries. Rick Scott is bothered with a bad ankle and knee strain and Emanuel Ekama and Norie Harrower are opening with a severely bruised bone in the leg and a hamstring pull respectively...
...damn language requirement will be my nemesis. I took a year's leave primarily because of the strain the language requirement placed on my other courses...For those of us who have trouble with languages, the requirement is more than an inconvenience--it is a catastrophe...