Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with delight, not distress, that I read "Women: Still Unequal" [Oct. 1]. Clark Kerr reports, the Carnegie Commission endorses and TIME has published a fact that women's colleges have known for much more than a decade. In single-sex institutions young women enjoy the special advantages they cannot obtain elsewhere, namely leadership positions, full participation in all academic activities and an abundance of role models...
...humor is dispensed with all the subtlety of a bazooka blast. In the middle of an important conference, the President accepts a Paris call from "Henry," who places a rush order for some Reuben's cheesecake. The Rev. Mr. Williams assures a troubled Chief that "in times of distress, prayer is a powerful laxative...
...March, this office just pours over with people having trouble with mulberry pollen," says Tucson Dr. L. Winston Martin. Adds Allergist Dr. Rueben Wagelie: "Bermuda grass thrives in this climate and gives off pollen from February to October." Although the doctors are struggling to alleviate their patients' distress, the only real cure is the one Mrs. Sturgis chose in 1953-flight. The plight of the allergy sufferers arouses little compassion in Jack Taylor, owner of three thriving Tucson nurseries: "The pollen isn't any problem at all to 99% of the people here," he says. "The other...
...past three years the government of Canada has funded an innovative program called Opportunities for Youth, which pays students to dream up and work at jobs they want to do-such as bike patrols for cyclists in distress or day camps for children of low-income families...
...close facsimiles of it, is now practiced by some 3,000 psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and ministers in the U.S. and 14 foreign countries. In fact, it may be the most widely used and fastest-growing form of treatment for emotional distress in the world. Says Boston's J. Allyn Bradford, a Congregational minister who runs a T.A. training institute called OK World, Inc.: "Tom Harris has done for psychotherapy the same thing Henry Ford did for the automobile: made it available to the average person...