Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europe, the approaching installation of U.S. medium-range missiles over protests of the peace movement is putting the NATO alliance under increasing strain, and may yet precipitate a Soviet walkout from the arms-control talks in Geneva...
...spirit of the venture, with a confidence about the uses of power and ambition that now seems amazing. Kennedy took office with extraordinary energy and the highest hopes. He seemed in some ways the perfect American. As Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin points out, he exemplified two usually contradictory strains in American tradition. One is the immigrant experience, the old American story of the luckless or disfavored or dispossessed who came from Europe and struggled in the New World. Rooted in that experience is the glorification of the common man and the desire for a common-man presidency, a celebration...
...literally) paint up a storm. Works like Cobalt Night, 1962, or Charred Landscape, 1960, raise echoes of romantic "spectaculars," from Tintoretto to Oskar Kokoschka. They take a field of subject matter that Pollock was generally thought to have sealed off as his own-atmospheric space, roiled with stress and strain-and return it from the impromptu drip (which no one after Pollock could manage anyway) to the more deliberate action of the brush. When she resorted to dream imagery, as in the commanding, ropily drawn vortex of eyes in Night Watch, 1960, Krasner did not let her private demons...
...answer by military experts is not altogether reassuring. Its essence: as long as trouble on opposite sides of the globe can be met by deployments the size of those in Lebanon and Grenada, there is no strain. Those two crises are engaging only two of the twelve Marine amphibious units (a total of 150,000 troops) available to be dispatched round the world, and, of course, there remain all the other armed services of the nation to be drawn ons But a pair of widely separated major confrontations-a Soviet threat to the Persian Gulf oilfields, say, and a blowup...
...forlorn return of the unchosen began last Saturday, when the first 15 bodies arrived at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware. As weeping family members stood by the coffins in a cavernous aircraft hangar, General Kelley spoke a few words of praise. Then the familiar strain of the Marine hymn filled the makeshift chapel...