Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated. A pilot still full of fight might find himself, restless and bored, in an instructor's job. Another, "browned off" by the strain of too many combat missions, might better be given a ground assignment. Many an airman thought (and angrily said) that as a highly and expensively trained individual he should have some say in his future...
...else, that a policy which is a half-hearted compromise between revenge and appeasement is fatal. ... He and he alone, after months of hard work succeeded in hammering out a solution of the reparations problem, ruthlessly scaling down the demands ... to be sure that France could pay without undue strain what he ordered. . . . Europe owed to this dual functioning of common sense the longest peace it has known for centuries, and that is surely a greater claim to glory than all the Duke's victories from Assaye to Waterloo...
Senior Animal Husbandryman Black of the U.S. Department of Agriculture would probably hold the finest breed to be Santa Gertrudis strain out of Afrikanders which he helped develop on the King Ranch in Texas. Some of us on the commercial side of cow business insist and prove by our records that a crossbred Shorthorn on Hereford from the western slope of the Rockies (area is important) feeds out better than any other animal. But the leading breed in numbers of breeders, numbers of head, range coverage, which tops the Chicago market about 85% of the time, is Hereford...
...Darrow's favorite subjects include the laughable aspects of human underwear, the drastic results of heavy, middle-aged drinking, and the leering onset of sex in very small Boy Scouts ("Would you like to come up and look at my merit badges?"). Sometimes Darrow strikes a fine fantastic strain of social criticism. There is, for example, his classic comment on the profit motive. An incredibly cushy plutocrat sits in deep torpor and upholstery and hands a newspaper to his butler: "I'm through with the paper, Roberts. Take it out and sell it." Other Darrow scenes...
Across the nation, wrecks occurred. Most were minor. None was as costly as in the preceding eight days, when 109 people were killed in three Eastern railway disasters. But they came with a shuddering frequency that showed the increasing strain of the railroads' job. The locomotive and four cars of the Milwaukee Road's crack Olympian were derailed by a buckled rail south of Seattle (five injured). Two Nickel Plate engines collided head-on at Brocton, N.Y. (none seriously hurt...