Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors have long recognized a medical fact behind the saying that "people make themselves ill" through strain or worry. But it was only in recent years that anyone advanced a coherent theory of why this occurs: applying his "general adaptation syndrome" theory (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950), Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye minutely described how body tissues, adapted to normal stresses, sometimes suffer severe damage because of fatigue, worry or even bad eating habits. Still unanswered was the question of just how individual body cells act under stress. This blind spot stymied the search for remedies...
...food freezers, storm windows, "have gypped . . . our public out of millions." For example, the decoy couples called a station about a sewing machine advertised at $26.50. They were visited by a sharper who confided that the machine was not very good; its needle was apt to snap under heavy strain and could not be replaced. Then he offered a $50 discount on a $189.50 model...
...this appeal . . . can no longer live without it, and it will continue to voice itself within him of its own accord." The peasant's teacher trains him to say the prayer over and over until he can repeat it more than 12,000 times a day without strain and "this frequent service of the lips imperceptibly becomes a genuine appeal of the heart." The prayer becomes a constant, warming presence within him that brings a "bubbling...
Movies in 1954 turned out to be considerably better in quality than they have been for a number of years-but most of the good ones were not made in Hollywood. The economic strain of the early '503 burst at last the giant pod of cinema talent in Southern California. Able, creative people-producers, directors, actors, cameramen-were scattered to the four winds. Some drifted into television, but quite a few went off to the film capitals of Europe, where they stirred new life in the local talent...
...Even spending $17.1 billion on education will hardly put a strain on the nation's pocketbook; by 1965 the U.S. is expected to produce $525 billion worth of goods and services (1953 figure: $365 billion...