Word: strains
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Walter Mondale is a preacher's son from Elmore, Minn., who with little strain became Vice President. Before he began running for President, he made a million bucks in a couple of years for not doing much of anything. Yet when he looks out over America from the stump these days, he sees mostly desperation...
...that the fact that Hopkins was truly a better squad than Harvard, and routs like Saturday's don't strain the imagination...
...beneficiary was Hart's campaign rather than theirs. Glenn has organized and filed full delegate slates in all primary states to retain a chance of capitalizing himself, notably in the South, where many voters may find both Mondale and Hart too liberal. But his resources are coming under strain. In order to switch money and effort into the Super Tuesday primaries in Florida, Georgia and Alabama on March 13 and the March 17 caucuses in Mississippi, where he must run strongly to survive, Glenn last week had to put his campaigns in Texas and Michigan on hold, temporarily closing offices...
Cantabrigians derive some benefit from having institutions such as Harvard and MIT in their midst, if only because the children of professors and graduate students attend the public schools. Although Leib points out that this increases the transient nature of the student body and puts a strain on the schools, most school committee members cite the benefits of having academically oriented and diverse students in the system...
Such stuff is harder to pull off than sex-and-money jokes, and Act I occasionally betrays the strain. Random Star Trek and sportscasting segments come across more like The Groove Tube than pastiche; gags spliced in from other humorists without apparent reason--including Tom Lehrer's "Ave Maria, Gee it's good to see ya" and Monty Python's "No! No singing!"--seem like mere cribs...