Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is the first time in history a vice president has been caught dead to right committing illegal acts and forced to resign," Price said. "It is fortunate that Vice President Agnew made the decision to resign and spare the government lots of disastrous strain...
...hair has grayed perceptibly since 1970 and the lines on his face have deepened. The physical changes are evidence of the strain suffered by Jordan's King Hussein, 37, since he was virtually boycotted by most of his Arab neighbors three years ago as punishment for kicking the unruly Palestinian guerrillas out of his kingdom. Lately, however, Hussein has been displaying an air of quiet triumph. After last month...
Agnew did his determined best to carry on his personal and official life just as before. It was his wife who most showed the strain. Judy Agnew is a quiet, unassuming woman who never wanted to enter the minefields of politics. Unlike Pat Nixon, who has been steeled by many crises in the past, Mrs. Agnew is experiencing her first ordeal. For the first time she has been confronted by reporters demanding, "Is your husband going to resign?" Calmly, she answered, "You'll have to ask my husband...
...dinner for Pakistani Prime Minister Ali Bhutto, the Agnews were swiftly ushered out of camera range into the East Room instead of waiting, as usual, for the Nixons to descend the curving staircase. When the Agnews joined the Nixons and the Bhuttos at the head table that night, the strain showed on Judy Agnew's usually smiling, round face...
...outskirts of Phoenix, houses are climbing mountainsides. The less expensive houses in those distant areas lure residents and businesses from the city, reducing the urban tax base. Mass transportation is uneconomical in the far suburbs; so their residents become totally dependent on the auto, increasing the strain on the nation's fuel supplies...