Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tension, man . . . comes closer in his methods of building to the forces and mechanics of nature than ever before. The oak tree holds its own against the gale only because its roots are strong enough to resist the pull of the wind, and the fibers of its branches restrain the buffeting with their tautness . . . All living things exist in a state of constant tension; only the inanimate and the dead rest in place by weight alone, rock piled on rock and slab leaning against slab. All truly modern building is alive...
...among psychoanalysts has been much higher than among doctors generally. "Recent statistics indicate that bartenders share the top rung of the mortality ladder with the analysts . . . Both are dealing constantly with the frailties of human nature and are witness daily to hostility in naked form, but are forced to restrain themselves . . . from taking issue . . . The incidence is low among manual workers, but the wives of laborers are more often affected than their husbands. The difference may be due to budget or family problems...
...eyed gringo tourist who has seen the unabashed Tehuanas bathing in the river can testify, painstakingly clean. Inhibitions hardly exist, as even their superstitions show: if a man feels an overwhelming urge to smack a girl's bottom, Tehuanas think he'd better do it, rather than restrain himself and thus make the girl the victim of his covetous evil...
Milk is the staple of the scholastic diet. No food seems quite so aesthetically and physically moving, with its symbolic purity, smooth digestibility, and excellent properties for soothing the intestinal queasiness of a hangover. In fact, while it was with us, students had to be implored to restrain themselves to two glasses a meal. That is why the impending shortage due to a strike poses a grave problem for the University...
...aggressive impulses. Of the father & son cases, Psychiatrist Levin says: "In the motor centers of the angry parent there is a struggle. There are excitations which are about to express themselves in an act of aggression. But there also are inhibitions, for the parent feels guilty and wants to restrain himself." Cataplexy, says Dr. Levin, is a symptom of narcolepsy (involuntary sleep). Cataplexy may occur when a man has an aggressive impulse which, because of guilt, he tries (or feels he should try) to suppress. Or he may actually fall asleep. Dr. Levin cites the example of the soldier...