Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wryly detached wit. He says a man's lips scarcely moved, "as if he were keeping them poised for the next sip of alcohol, which, it seemed, was never more than a few seconds away," and describes a group of a "new strain of flower child...these were flower children who wanted to get rich. Hippies with Rotarian hearts." He asks, "Wasn't uncouthness--or at least the option of being uncouth--the whole point of living in Nome...
...blue sports jacket. And it matches his red Bible, which never strays more than a half a foot or so away from his right hand. "I am a citizen first, a pastor second," Michael says. Above all, he is a Christian; but he distinguishes his strain of Baptism from the "gray nebulous" of Christian sects, using a string of adjectives that pop up over and over again: fundamentalist, Bible-believing, born-again, saved. As a citizen, he has always kept up on the issues, voted, written to his congressmen. As a Christian, he--along with the other members...
Still recuperating from the strain that finishing in eighth place at the Big Three Meet placed on his aching achilles tendon, Murphy will not be able to defend his Hep championship...
Refusing to strain the comparison between the three Lowells, Heymann concludes that their styles had limited similarities, outside of each's violent dislike for being compared with the others. Robert Lowell's poem "T.S. Eliot" was the result of a conversation Lowell once had with Eliot about the notorious Aunt...
That he did not do so, Epps says, reflects his concern for Olive's personal problems as well as his desire that the transition from Olive to Smith be a smooth one. Considering that Olive's problems stemmed from the strain of running the delivery service, this explanation seems odd. As dean of students. Epps' concern for Olive is commendable--and should have surfaced regardless of Epps' connection with HDNS in the form of obtaining psychological help for the student. But as overseer of HDNS, Epps' decision to keep Olive employed can only be described as patently irresponsible...