Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There had appeared to be some strain in the relationship between Harrison and Klug earlier in the season. In the first of two freshman-varsity games, Klug used five men almost exclusively. Harrison suggested that it would be better to use more of the players, and in the next game. Klug took most of his starters out after the first ten minutes. This added to the strain...
...achieve or would require. At some level of living and begetting, presumably, they spoke in whispers. But at some other level-the children at boarding school, the investments divided-they exchanged memos. Fond memos. tender memos-but still memos-not dashed off, but surely edited. Putting the ultimate strain on public credulity, L.B.J. said that in May 1964 he had painfully committed to paper what he had told some close friends: "The times require leadership and a voice. I have learned after trying very hard that I am not that voice, or that leader...
...black law student is a strange animal," says Norbert Simmons, a Negro in his first year at Boston University Law School. "He has to learn to use the very things that have been used against him. It's a tremendous strain to go completely establishmentarian for three years." As one result, many of the most promising black students drop out before earning their degrees...