Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shuttle began in a warm glow. It was the first diplomatic trip abroad on which Nancy Maginnes, whom I had married on March 30, came with me. What she absorbed of my strain is exemplified by her acquisition of two ulcers, which put her in the hospital for weeks at the end of the trip...
...with the script," as his brother Dini put it, Manotoc called a second press conference, only to announce that he would have nothing more to say. Friends said he was torn by conflicting ties to his family and his new wife, and under great emotional strain from his experience. Said a family intimate: "He's terrified." It appeared doubtful that Tommy and Imee could salvage their relationship. She did meet with him last week at Malacañang Palace, the presidential residence, where she has been living, and they talked frequently by phone. But insiders speculated that...
Franz never hinted at his uncertainties as he delivered speeches in 50 nations through the 1970s. But to ease his internal strain, he took a leave of absence from his Bethel duties early in 1980. Meanwhile, the Governing Body had begun a secret investigation of heresy rumors, and it used star-chamber tactics. Initially there were no direct confrontations. Instead, staff members were allegedly threatened with disfellowshipping to get their testimony about doctrinal discussions with others. On May 21, Franz was summoned to Brooklyn for a fateful grilling by his Governing Body colleagues. Did he doubt that Jehovah had only...
...Europe, the French economy would indeed be damaged. A number of industries depend on it and conversion to another energy source takes time. What's more, during the winter the ten million Frenchmen who depend on gas for warmth would have to bay electric heaters, thus putting a severe strain on the French power network...
...anyone else's democracy completely safe in this world, not when the many more than one million Hiroshima incinerators which exist today can make dust of man more than dozen times. It is too great a strain on the imagination to think that from the ashes of a first time, anyone will arise to implement a nuclear advantage. Even if nuclear war were limited to the destruction of the cradle of Western civilization, it would only be the image before the heat, radiation, and campaigns two, three and four dissolved homo sapiens and his worn-out ethics...