Word: strained
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...total expenditure for campaigns that attracted less than 121,000 voters: from $424,000 to $714,000. GEORGIA. The Southern Strategy is expensive for both parties at election time. With the demise of the one-party system have come party primaries and challenges to longtime incumbents that strain pocketbooks unaccustomed to opposition. There was no senatorial contest in Georgia, but candidates for Governor and the House spent more than $5,000,000. The biggest spender was former Governor Carl Sanders, who invested $2,000,000 in a losing race for the Democratic nomination. Democratic Governor-elect Jimmy Carter spent...
...Then they inserted into the remaining cell membrane a nucleus and cytoplasm that had been similarly removed from other cells. In more than 70% of their attempts, the transplant produced a completely viable new cellas long as the components used were taken from amoebae of the same strain. But when they tried the same reshuffling with parts from amoebae of different strains, the experiment failed in all but two of 434 tries...
...just-completed Senate race, however, put an unaccustomed strain on the Tunney reputation. His performance in a primary he narrowly won was often wooden, and he vacillated on issues. He was described by critics as a "lightweight"-an obvious wordplay reference to his boxer father, former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney...
...that American Puritanism is an anti-passion so powerful as to disorder the reason it purports to support. Beneath their cool New England exteriors, Alonso hints, Emerson and Thoreau-and Bronson-were as gloriously crazy as his own Don Quixote. He knows how consciences can cramp under strain, how idealism can gnarl the mind. He is not joking when he compares the 19th century Utopian experiment at Brook Farm with a Massachusetts mental hospital of today...
...juggernaut roll of the Big Beat, the slash of the old blues strain, the euphoria of yeh-yeh-yeh are all fading. With the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper (1967), rock crossed the line into self-consciousness, sophistication and experimentation. The result has been an exciting diversity of sounds produced by eclectic rock musicians. But a problem remains: How can this evolution go on without depleting the primitive power that first gave the music its momentum...