Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposed to be a political basis for having sex, but there didn't have to be much of one. After spending all day together in the political struggle, why not continue the political struggle in bed?" Indeed, so indiscriminate were their couplings, that members kept passing around a strain of gonorrhea that proved to be difficult to treat; they regarded it as a badge of honor...
...have caused the dollar lately to leap ahead against every European currency; last week it traded for 2.67 German marks, the highest value in more than a year. Finally, the political alliance that OPEC is trying to forge with Third World countries is already showing signs of strain because of towering oil prices...
...Senate, Bentsen has concentrated on the economy. A fiscal conservative, he deplored big spending and even objected to revenue sharing as a strain on the federal budget. But during the recession, he has called for Government intervention to counter unemployment. He introduced a bill to create 840,000 summer jobs for unemployed youths and urges a revival of the Civilian Conservation Corps, the New Deal agency that put tens of thousands of young people to work on federal conservation projects around the country. To stimulate the depressed housing industry, Bentsen has proposed giving a 20% tax credit to parents...
...country's best-known radio announcers, broadcast repeated warnings about roving bands of armed men. As fighting escalated, he called for firemen to return to their stations and for blood donors to help hospitals whose supplies once again were running low. Occasionally his voice broke with the strain...
...spite of the risks they run, older homosexuals often come out simply to avoid the finally intolerable strain of living a lie. Explained Minnesota State Senator Allan Spear, 38, after he gave a local newspaper a story about his homosexuality last winter: "I felt I was going to be much more comfortable in a situation where I wasn't going to be hiding what I am, enduring gossip behind my back." His heavily liberal constituency took the news calmly and is expected to re-elect him. For Elaine Noble, 31, the first avowed lesbian to be elected to state office...