Word: strains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sociologist Laner blames cruelty at coeducational institutions in large part on a "violence-loving society" that has nurtured this college generation on murder movies and newspaper stories detailing crimes of passion. Other experts speculate that lack of parietal rules has put too much sexual and emotional strain on the young. College students have always had a hard time deciding what comes first-school work or a loved one. On today's openly sexual, highly competitive campuses, even the most solid balancing act can come unbalanced. In such a zero-sum scenario, each hour spent with one's partner...
Finally she could carry it no longer, "crying every day, two or three times a day for two weeks. I thought I was losing control." Mentally drained, she quit for three months during the winter of 1977-78. "It gets old, tennis 52 weeks a year, the strain of staying No. 1. People are always at your heels, younger kids trying to beat...
...turns up in London at 29, doing political lampoons for the Westminster Gazette with parodies of Lewis Carroll and Kipling. In The Political Jungle Book, Lord Balfour, the hapless Prime Minister, is called "Sheer Khan't." Throughout Saki's life, Celtic mysticism and foreboding, plus a raw strain of patriotism, kept trying to break through the veneer of satiric wit and comic, cultured urbanity that made him celebrated as man and writer. Langguth notes that he knew "the frustration of an adventurer's soul locked in the body of a clerk." Soon Munro left London again...
...wistful inner ear, one imagines a soft transcontinental buzz, the sound of 13,000 consciences alert and intricately working. "Well," says each troubled voice, "I'd like to strike. I think we have plenty of reason to strike-wages, hours, job strain. But I signed an oath when I took the job. It would be dishonorable to strike. We have to find some other...
...much involved third party. An unsettling question formed in millions of minds: Just how safe are the skies when substitute controllers?and, eventually, military specialists unfamiliar with generally heavier civilian air traffic?are manning the towers and scopes? In addition, how long could the supervisors stand the strain...