Word: strained
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Russian advisers "live as the Chinese do," reports say. The result, so far: no visible strain or dissension between the Russian and Chinese comrades...
...adrenal glands were enlarged, the thymus wasted away and the stomach ulcerated. Dr. Hans Selye concluded sadly that he had been wasting his time. Then it struck him: none of the substances which he had injected had directly caused death, but all had caused an unbearable stress or strain on the rats' systems. Stress was what had killed the rats...
...months, stubborn old Jan Christian Smuts fought off death. Exhausted by pneumonia and heart strain, the 80-year-old statesman made a slight concession to the enemy last June-he "temporarily" yielded his leadership of South Africa's United Party to his deputy, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss. But through his son, he announced that he planned soon "once more to enter the fray with renewed vigor." Last week, against his doctors' advice, Smuts left his tin-walled farmhouse to do just that...
Despite the materials shortages of World War II, Gossard kept its sales up by such new products as the high-backed "curvette" for women war workers, to ease the strain of long hours in factories. When the New Look came in and dressmakers talked blithely of the "natural bust," perhaps without a brassiere, Gossard quickly added: "The natural rounded bust, but with an uplift...
...Nathan gets two of the Aycocks before he is cornered and driven to suicide. But the characters are a mighty long time aflounderin' around in the Southern-cliche brakes before release comes. Streams of tobacco juice squirt in all directions, brass spittoons chime, calico dresses strain around the exciting hips of 15-year-old girls, and somewhere a mockingbird sings...