Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survivor of bypass surgery and four heart attacks, he travels with a complete set of medical records, as well as medication and instructions on how it is to be administered. Although he has been unwilling to take on any full-time negotiating post because he thought the job would strain his physical abilities, Habib now finds himself involved in an even more taxing assignment...
...hands full of blood?" His eyes strain forward. "Do you think? But I am here." He rises abruptly and goes to his car, flashing the V sign for the photographers outside...
Molander may be the single most visible (and thoughtful) leader in the nebulous movement, but there is no individual or organization in command. And there are already signs of strain. The day after the Central Park turnout, Moorhead Kennedy, one of the 53 Iranian hostages and now the director of a peace institute at New York City's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, was heckled by anti-nuclear activists as he delivered a lecture on disarmament. He had expressed some wariness of the "extremely seductive" promises that arms control "is an issue for 'the people...
...touched off a major anthropological controversy by lumping Lucy and other East African fossils into a single new species, which they called Australopithecus afarensis (apeman from Afar). These Lucy-type creatures, they said, were common ancestors of two distinct hominid lines-the australopithecines, which presumably died out, and the strain that 'led eventually to Homo sapiens...
...units from the rental market to do the renovations. Arguing before a rent board hearing examiner last week, the members claimed that although tenants at the Craigie Arms apartments reached an agreement with the University to vacate their units, granting Harvard the necessary removal permit would increase the strain on the city's already tight housing market...