Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...1940s Jenkins was in a position to swallow an entire $5,000,000 issue of bonds by the Mexican government's holding corporation, Nacíonal Financiera, without apparent strain. When a projected four-lane highway from Mexico City to Querétaro lagged for lack of funds, Jenkins lent the contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies...
...Sirola, who capered about like a jolly blade on a Sunday picnic. Using the full leverage of his height and weight (6 ft. 7 in., 224 Ibs.), Sirola mixed awesome serves with overhead smashes to win in a rout, 9-7, 6-3, 8-6. Unable to stand the strain of watching the match, Pietrangeli had nursed his anguish at a nearby beach, returned just in time to see the final point, crying: "The best match I never saw Orlando play...
...opposition's strongest blow to date found Castro showing signs of strain. El Mundo Editor Luis Gomez Wanguermert, a Castro spokesman, said flatly: "Cuba would welcome any relaxation of tension with the U.S." A few nights later at Havana University, Castro himself announced: "The Cuban revolution does not have to be exported...
...servile; he cringes and begs without pride, knowing that he is more useful alive than dead. Michaels is in complete control of his character and of the stage. Occasionally he lapses into the speech and body movement of a hipster, which, though not really inconsistent with the character, strain one's powers of comprehension. But there is no question that he is a professional...
...evident throughout Days and Nights. With its terse, ungarnished lines, its relatively simple, folkish characters, and its love story, evolving in the midst of battle, this novel is especially reminiscent of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Yet, beneath the Hemingwayesque prose, characters, and situation, there runs a strong nationalistic strain which lends Days and Nights its own, special power and gives it a quality very different from that of the Hemingway novel...