Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start of his trial on charges of espionage. Oliver and Ida Powers were visibly tired, looked around at their new surroundings with wary eyes. "They are only poor country folk," the family doctor, Lewis K. Ingram of Norton, Va., confided to newsmen. "All this has been a terrible strain on them...
From its isolation in 1954 until it could be attenuated for trial as a vaccine in monkeys, the Edmonston strain took almost four years of exquisitely refined laboratory techniques and testing. Dr. Enders put a series of assistants to work on it in turn. Each kept the virus growing while transplanting it from one tissue-culture pot to another. One grew it in cultures of cells from human kidneys. Another kept it going through 28 transplantations in cells of human amnion ("bag of waters"). A third got it to flourish in the amnion of fertilized hens' eggs. Dr. Samuel...
...much remains to be done, far more has been accomplished in the last quarter-century than in the previous 2,500 years. Except for specialized and usually local deficiencies in the diet, such as iodine, malnutrition is now known not to be a major cause of malformations. Stress and strain on the mother play a role in some birth defects (they have been blamed for harelip and cleft palate), but just what is far from clear...
...handsome, ebony face lined with strain and bathed with sweat, Rafer Johnson collapsed wearily on a folding chair at the University of Oregon's track field last Saturday. "It's ridiculous," he muttered. "The whole thing's ridiculous.'' The 4,500 cheering spectators sympathized-but disagreed. In his first competitive fling at the decathlon-among the most grueling of all sports events-since he injured his back in an automobile accident last year, Johnson had just turned in the greatest individual performance in modern track history. In last week's Olympics decathlon trials, Johnson...
...waved his arms about his head and bounded about the field like a dipsy kangaroo. Out of the stands pell-melled Bragg's fiancee, a 5 ft. 4? in., 112-lb. blonde named Terry Fiore, in her hands a rosary that had snapped under the strain. Bragg gleefully flung her over one broad shoulder like a bag of cement and started to dance again. When he had calmed down enough to be coherent, Bragg declared: "I don't want to push the Man Upstairs. All I want is a gold medal in the Olympics, and then Tarzan...