Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years have taken their toll, and the strain shows in Cushing's craggy, furrowed face. He suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and cancer. As the longtime spiritual adviser of the Kennedy family, he has been devastated by their tragedies. "It seems that all my troubles have come in the autumn of my life,'' he lamented after Joe Kennedy's death. "I now feel alone and abandoned." Appropriately enough, one of the most moving tributes upon the cardinal's resignation came from Senator Edward Kennedy, speaking on behalf of the family: "For three-quarters...
...epidemic is the latest flare-up of a hardy strain of cholera known as El Tor (named for the Egyptian quarantine station where it was first identified). The strain originated more than 30 years ago in the highlands of Indonesia's Celebes Islands. In recent years the disease has spread north to the Korean peninsula and west along the Southeast Asian mainland. After passing through India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, it became a raging epidemic in Iran and Iraq by 1965. There the disease seemed to mark time-at least until a month or so ago, when it resumed...
Pimps and Pirates. What will be going for Papillon in the U.S. is its strain of fashionable neoRomanticism. Particularly when extolling the simplicity of the Indians with whom he lived for more than six months in 1934, Papillon offers Rousseauesque passages damning society and praising the noble savage. Indeed, the book is profoundly optimistic about human nature. Its pages are crowded with pimps, pirates and murderers. But, except for those who cruelly serve the prison system, they live in a subsociety marked by a degree of order and a scrupulousness that often goes far enough beyond "honor among thieves...
...They are measuring the minute warping of rock along "locked" areas, changes that reflect the gigantic, subterranean forces urging that part of California west of the fault to move toward Alaska. In addition, the electrical and magnetic properties of rocks have been found to depend upon the amount of strain the rocks are undergoing. Predicts Jerry Eaton, Menlo Park's chief scientist: "We will be able to put all our clues together pretty soon and make short-term predictions on the order of days or hours...
Locked Faults. There is one ideal solution: earthquake prevention. Some scientists have proposed using H-bombs to jar loose locked sections of faults, thus relieving accumulating strain that would otherwise build up to dangerous levels. More realistic is the possibility of using pressurized water or liquid waste to release this pent-up seismic energy. At two carefully studied sites in Colorado, liquid injections have been found to "lubricate" locked fault systems. This allows the plates to resume sliding past each other, setting off small but relatively harmless energy-dissipating tremors...