Word: strained
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week, nerves jangled with the strain of uncertainty and bad news. Once, the Senate was startled when a grey, hooded figure rose in the gallery, intoning sepulchrally: "I am here to warn you." The lady, who said she was "the phantom of the past," was hustled off by Capitol guards, for mental observation...
...spare as a cornstalk. His greyness of face was due to an intestinal bug which he had picked up during his most recent trip to Japan. Partly because of his own demands to be shown everything, he was sorely overworked. He had been through years of terrifying strain. Once he said he did not think he could keep it up "if the end weren't in sight." By the end he meant his date of retirement from the J.C.S.: August 1951. His deep-seated calm probably accounted for his durability...
...time had not yet come when the industry needed to be put on full war production; to do so, without full wartime controls, would strain the whole economy to the cracking point. But the U.S. did need to step up aircraft production to meet the minimum needs of even a limited war. Plainly the time for it to start doing...
...sneeze, then you will either kill his love by shooting wads of blotting paper at him or, if the paper stands the strain, air pressure inside your head will blow your brains...
Succeeding legislative proposals with which University officials became concerned include: the Barnes Bill, the Fair Education Practices Bill (the University opposed it because of the strain it might put on its office force), the Sullivan Bill, and several measures filed this year which deal with control of communist infiltration in teaching