Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspect that Inman's friction with Allen, who quit in January after disclosure that he had accepted gifts from a Japanese magazine, spilled over into hostility between Inman and Casey, since Casey and Allen had long been allies. Inman concedes that the "air might have had a little strain in it" when Casey was being investigated and Inman was seen as a successor, but he insisted, "The personal working relationship has been very easy from the start...
...threat of an invasion grew, U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis went straight to Begin to warn him off. The U.S., he cautioned, saw no reasonable justification for war. A patently unwarranted attack, he said, would isolate Israel in world opinion and further strain the nation's raveled ties to the U.S. Replied Begin: "We shall not allow the spillers of Jewish blood to escape justice." He added that the Cabinet had made "no decision" about an invasion. The U.S. chose to put the best possible interpretation on that carefully hedged assurance. Said one U.S. official: "We take Prime Minister Begin...
...visible qualms about describing an uncannily similar "incident" that has since befallen a friend of hers who "writes about angora sweaters" for a Toronto lifestyles journal, one who, in fact, partly sparked her idea for Rennie's character. The coincidence apparently does not strain Atwood's credulity. "The normal thing about normal people is that strange things happen to them. Usually, you have to tone down reality to make it fictionally probable...
Hard-core runners who zip by usually sneer at us. I know those lean, muscled and intense women are mentally belittling us for not being purists, for diverting our minds to enjoyable thoughts while our call muscles strain. I contend that if the Beatles or The Cars make the difference for me between running and walking. I'm going to continue to "Let the Good Times Roll...
...strongest roles, Redgrave dispalys a daft, heroic sanctity. Here she is to wear the sensible shoes of a Jo Woodward type. She won't fit; her talent is too big. So, at the start of this two-hour drama, Redgrave and the viewer strain and squint to miniaturize her legend into the everyday character of Leenie Cabrezi. It is an act of self-denial: she must lower the pilot light of her unique intensity and convince through an effort of will and craft...