Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...release. They reveal a sense of increasing strength drawn both from the support that the outside community was giving him and from his own reaffirmation of his usefulness as a member of the prison vanguard. Thus, rather than losing his sense of purpose and direction under the strain of his escalated confinement, Jackson came to see and express himself with an inspired power...
Intolerable Strain. The current dispute has grown out of the Pakistani army's harsh repression of a Bengali movement demanding greater autonomy for the much-exploited eastern sector of the divided nation. The resulting flood of impoverished East Pakistani refugees has placed an intolerable strain on India's already overburdened economy. New Delhi has insisted from the first that the refugees, who now number well over 9,000,000 by official estimates, must be allowed to return safely to their homes in East Pakistan...
Routine work pressures are high in production-conscious Japan. Besides, his society forces the average employee to cultivate complex, formal relationships with his fellow workers and employers even if he dislikes them. The resulting strain, reports a Japanese official, has greatly increased the number of "industrial ailments" in the 50-million-man work force...
Even with such sophisticated tools as strain gauges, laser beams and magnetometers to determine the buildup of dangerous stresses in the earth, scientists have had little success in forecasting major earthquakes. But as they have attempted to develop more complex quake-prediction devices, they may have been overlooking a simple one that predates man. A U.S. Government scientist reports that nature itself may provide a primitive early-warning system in the periodic eruptions of spectacular geysers like Yellowstone National Park's Old Faithful...
...rate of from three to six miles per day, eventually reaching as far south as Yellowstone National Park. There they put increasing pressure on the hot-water "plumbing" of Old Faithful. As a result, the geyser began spouting with increasing frequency until the quake finally relieved the strain, allowing Old Faithful to resume a more leisurely pace...