Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold for a baseball team. There is something contemptuous about the person who pins his felicity on the fortune of nine men he doesn't even know. And I submit to this bludgeoning self-disapproval whenever I find myself reeling from...
...creatures that prey on ants. If the mantis and the spider are to be wiped out, can man be far behind? With all due secrecy and dispatch, Hubbs and Lesko set up a remote experimental site to find out. Their research leads them to some spooky conclusions, and the strain of it all tells on Hubbs, who at one point agonizes aloud about the ants: "What do they want? What are their goals...
...urgency?with good reason. So far, the Administration has relied heavily on the tight-fisted money policy of the Federal Reserve Board to temper prices. That policy has lifted interest rates to towering levels and thus attracted massive amounts of money out of the mortgage market, put an enormous strain on banks and credit, and generally slowed production?without even denting inflation. Growing doubt among investors about the Administration's ability to control the economy has sent the stock market into a frightening slump. The Dow Jones industrial average has plunged almost 200 points in the eight weeks since Ford...
Hazumi said yesterday the Japanese government would take no further action on Cohen's statement. Neither Hazumi nor Cohen said the incident will in any way strain relations between the United States and Japan
...Labor Party has always been closely tied to the unions, which wield more than 80% of the voting strength at Labor Party conferences. Up to and throughout the '60s, unions were clearly the horse to the Labor Party's cart. But now the accumulated strain of the inflationary '70s seems to have caused the once cooperative unions to bolt. Wilson's fate in the Oct. 10 elections depends largely on his ability to convince voters that he will be able to rein in the runaways...