Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prominent West German politician and possible successor to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a Harvard audience yesterday that the Reagan administration's attitude towards arms control strain relations between his country and the United States...
...father-daughter bond can still show strain, and did on the movie...
...idol, because he did it all and never got a black eye." Of his own acting, he says: "My roles may have been comparatively easy, because I was generally the hoodlum, and I understood that type perfectly well. No strain...
...strain. It is a phrase that has been recurring to Cagney for as long as people have been trying to inquire into the nature of his gift. "Just a job" is another one, used to describe almost any role anyone asks about. Says Ragtime Director Milos Forman: "At first I was suspicious, but no, it is absolutely genuine. His humility toward work-that is just him. I know the word is abused, but I really think James is some kind of genius. His instincts are phenomenal. As a director, I don't have to tell him a thing. Could...
...people waiting in line at Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. And obviously they are not overly concerned at Bob's Bank, whose slogan-"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"-would cause terminal heartburn in the boardroom of Chase Manhattan. In fact, the only people feeling the strain are those innocents who tune in National Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion for the first time and lack directions to visit all their new-heard friends in Lake Wobegon...