Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successor, President Ford should resist right-wing political pressure. As he is the first president to have the political opportunity to name a woman to the bench, Ford should appoint a left-leaning woman to Douglas's vacant seat. Choosing a conservative would only further strengthen the reactionary strain spawned by Richard Nixon within the court...
...Give the Jewish state a means of competing with the Arabs' growing military strength without putting "the Israeli economy under serious strain," as would continued reliance on conventional weapons alone...
Dostoevsky was under especially heavy emotional strain when he met Anna. In addition to his brother's debts, his stepson made extravagant demands on his dwindling resources. His beloved first wife had died two years previously. A bitter conflict emerged between Anna and his late wife's family for control of Fyodor's time and money, a conflict which she wins by convincing him to travel abroad with...
Last Friday, Juan Carlos agreed to pose for TIME Photographer Eddie Adams at Zarzuela Palace, his official residence north of Madrid. The lines under his eyes reflected the strain of last week's uncertainties, but the atmosphere at Zarzuela was relaxed and, as palaces go, even homey. There was little sense of urgent state business at hand. Observed TIME's Madrid bureau chief, Gavin Scott: "Juan Carlos gave the impression that he had been cast in a role and he was ready to fill it out of a sense of patriotism. But there was nothing to suggest...
When hardships and pain, denial and strain...