Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northern California coast. To the couple, it is an act of love; to the old man, the idyl is pointless and backward. He insists on staying with the unmarried couple until the baby comes, and snipes at their supernatural way of life. As the wrangle intensifies, Korty alleviates the strain with scenes of a vanishing existence-of undisturbed salt flats, of a newborn lamb on the grass, of vast, unsaturated skies. It is here that his affectations are replaced by affections...
...reduce the remaining flight time to 63 hours and drop the astronauts in the South Pacific about 600 miles southeast of Samoa. It was what engineers typically call a "trade-off"?not the fastest possible journey home, but one that would save fuel for later course corrections, not strain the remaining Aquarius oxygen, electricity and fuel supplies aboard, and set Odyssey down within easy range of the prime recovery ship Iwo Jima, already in the area...
About 20 witnesses appeared at the Planning Board hearing to oppose Harvard's petition. Some argued that the 300 units would impose an undue strain on streets and other public facilities in the areas and destroy its sedate residential character. Others said that, in view of Cambridge's shortage of housing. Harvard should build more than 300 units there...
...doctor at Stillman Infirmary told Cosentino yesterday that he had a bad strain valnerable to rupture, but a physician at Dillon Fieldhouse said that there was nothing seriously wrong with him. Cosentino will not know for sure if he can play until he gets another check-up just before the game...
Dickey's poetic sensibility, he admits, was the main problem in writing Deliverance. "I wanted to write simple, imaginative prose that did not strain for metaphorical brilliance," he explains. "I'm tired of reading novels in which nothing happens. Books like that are really rehearsals for some imagined literary display. I spent time taking things out of my prose." His own book came hard. Separating words from rhythm, he says, was like "putting on a wooden overcoat." Dickey worked at it on and off for seven years. Though he has doubts about writing another, financially he can have...