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was and strained
It was the marine: head lifted, he strained and called.
Within this framework, what followed was strained, even macabre.
The main objective of the mission, however, was to secure the return of Edward ; but this failed, mainly because Henry III's relations with the Hungarians were strained, and the emperor was unable or unwilling to help Ealdred.
Although he was a major figure in the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party after 1844, Disraeli's relations with the other leading figures in the party, particularly Lord Derby, the overall leader, were often strained.
The NSPI was held to be liable, and was financially strained by the case.
By 301, however, the system was in trouble, strained by a new bout of inflation.
However, relations were strained for a time following the 26 June 1995 assassination attempt against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as he was leaving the OAU summit meeting in Addis Ababa.
Eugene was never to fully trust his cousin again ; although he continued to pay due reverence to the Duke as head of his own family, their relationship would forever remain strained.
The relationship was strained.
The Persian king Khosrau II was assassinated soon after and peace was restored to the two deeply strained empires.
The alliance was shaky at best, mainly because during this period Himmler was still cooperating with Bormann to gain more power at the expense of Göring and most of the traditional Reich administration ; Göring's loss of power had resulted in an overindulgence in the trappings of power and his strained relations with Goebbels made it difficult for a unified coalition to be formed, despite the attempts of Speer and Göring's Luftwaffe deputy Field Marshal Erhard Milch, to reconcile the two Party comrades.
In June 1939, Franco-German relations were strained when the head of the French section of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Otto Abetz, was expelled from France following allegations that he had bribed two French newspaper editors to print pro-German articles.
Those present strained to catch the meaning of what he was trying to say in his eulogy.
The book was one of Baum's weakest, and its failure further strained his faltering relationship with Denslow.
The Swedish financial crises of the early 1990s exacerbated Malmö's decline as an industrial city ; between 1990-95, Malmö lost about 27, 000 jobs and its economy was seriously strained.
Nigeria's expulsion of more than 1 million Ghanaian immigrants in early 1983, when Ghana was facing severe drought and economic problems, and of another 300, 000 in early 1985 on short notice, further strained relations between the two countries.
The family was left in strained circumstances.
The relationship was additionally strained due to Germany's protectionist trade policies.
" This quote describes a drink without coconut, as the piña colada was originally just the juice of a fresh pineapple served either strained ( colada ) or unstrained ( sin colar ).
In a controversial case that strained Finland – Sweden relations and sparked an inter-IAAF battle, Nurmi was suspended before the 1932 Games by an IAAF council that questioned his amateur status.

was and silent
He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
Kid Boyd was unusually silent, Rankin watchful, a few paces apart.
Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.
Brassnose was strangely silent.
L. M. Birkhead challenged him to name one and he was silent.
He was a wiry, inscrutable, silent country boy from the red clay of rural Alabama, and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make fun of.
At the very end, when the audience was silent and breathless, a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed out.
Eugene was not entirely silent, or openly rude -- unless asking Harold to move to another chair and placing himself in the fauteuil that creaked so alarmingly was an act of rudeness.
All about me there was a hectic interplay of meetings taking place, like abrupt, jerky scenes in old silent movies, joyous greetings and beginnings, huggings and kissings, enthusiastic forays into the festive night.
He could tell them his fears of being involved, he could explain what had happened in the old neighborhood and how Mae had misunderstood and how she had held it over him -- the scene was complete in his mind at the moment, even to his own jerkings and snivelings, and Ferguson's silent patience.
He was silent again, possibly listening to the sounds in the squadroom.
The sudden silence was too silent.
It was silent in the stone alley.
I was silent.
The closet was faintly fragrant with lavender, and as Lucy shut the door an unhappy memory slipped into her mind, like a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was buried, and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the funeral guests with panicky eyes.
She was silent for a while, then said, `` Why are you so unhappy ''??
At two that morning, he was still walking -- up and down Peony, up and down the veranda, up and down the silent, moonlit beach.
Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end.
In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.
However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.

was and lunch
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
He was discharged from the hospital after a two-day checkup and he and his parents had what Mr. McKinley described as a `` celebration lunch '' at the cafeteria on the campus.
She had skipped her lunch hour in the fear that he might call while she was out.
Stanley had filled out the return and because, when he was finished, it was close to the lunch hour, he had politely asked Kitti to join him, never expecting her to accept.
Two martinis for lunch -- that was the trouble.
Then he asked to use the phone and called Brian Thayer, who said that he was just leaving to keep a lunch date but would be home by two o'clock.
It was almost one and I hadn't had lunch.
I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.
All Charlie could look forward to was a yellow pill at noon, a salami sandwich for lunch, and a lonely old age -- if he lived that long.
An incident also occurred in April 2007 in the Chicago Loop district, where a coyote, later nicknamed " Adrian ", quietly entered a Quizno's restaurant during the lunch hours ; it was later captured and released at a wildlife rehabilitation center near Barrington, Illinois.
The party lasted an hour, until lunch was served at 1 pm.
Fermi went home for lunch one day and returned with the explanation: the increased activity was due to hydrogen atoms in the wood slowing down neutrons ( later called moderation ) and this slowing caused them to be more active in nuclear reactions.
The next day, Saturday, was a disaster for England: Gooch was out in the first over of the day, and although Boycott and Brearley then attempted to dig in, they were both out before lunch.
Boycott was still anchored at the other end however, and he and Peter Willey added 50 runs before lunch.
Since his offices were close to the Chancellery, he was a frequent guest for lunch, during which he became adept at listening to Hitler ’ s monologues and agreeing with his opinions.
What he said was neither new, remarkable, nor particularly interesting ... He talked for more than an hour in a voice which never varied in tone, resting one hand in palm of the other and periodically glancing at his fingernails ... He insisted on my remaining for lunch.
In his last years in office, Adenauer used to take a nap after lunch and, when he was traveling abroad and had a public function to attend, he sometimes asked for a bed in a room close to where he was supposed to be speaking, so that he could rest briefly before he appeared.
At the same time Lynne was completing production work on George Harrison's Cloud Nine, and all three had lunch one day when Orbison accepted an invitation to sing on Harrison's album.
His final stop was lunch at Engine Company 55, which lost five men, in Chinatown, where he delivered five $ 11 pizzas from Sal's on Broome Street.
Ferber was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of wits who met for lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.
Powell's final words were a few hours after being admitted to hospital, he asked where his lunch was.

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