Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble. "Two of my men are sick but I don't want to make that sound like any kind of excuse." Nash said. "My six man has a case of. I guess you'd have to call it the runs, and my two man, Mike West, has a muscle strain...
Rushed to a top-secret desert laboratory to study a mysterious microbe from outer space, scientists in Michael Crichton's 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain undergo a thorough physical examination before they are allowed to start work. Their hearts, lungs and brain waves are all checked, their body fluids are analyzed, and their immunities to various diseases boosted by shots. But no doctor takes part in the process; the entire examination is automated. Says one member of the team to a colleague: "That machine-you'd better not let the A.M.A. find out about it." The A.M.A. already...
...admits is "catastrophic," and then tackle more of the same at Berkeley. His first priority: salving the cuts in Berkeley's staff (110 teaching positions this year) that Governor Reagan's parsimonious budgets have made necessary. That task, in fact, may be a relief after the strain of running CUNY's 20 units, which he seldom had time to even visit. At Berkeley (a mere 28,000 students), says Bowker, he will happily "return to campus life...
...wealthy, middle-aged illustrator named José G. Cruz, spins out in cartoons, photographs and cryptic dialogue what many Mexicans are talking about these days: the arrest of 20 young Mexican revolutionaries who traveled to North Korea for guerrilla training and returned home to cause the severest strain in Mexican-Soviet relations since Leon Trotsky sought asylum in Mexico...
...Kulakov, 53, a party secretary and specialist in agriculture. All are Brezhnev protégés. By packing the Politburo, just as Stalin did in 1952, Brezhnev henceforth will be able to dominate it more easily. The collective leadership, which last year had begun to show signs of strain, appeared to be yielding ground to Brezhnev's drive toward undisputed preeminence...