Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes to the desert with caution and respect, the forbidding area has much to offer: fabulous mineral riches, water so pure that it tastes like distilled water, incredibly fertile farmland and a growing season 365 days long. Above all, the desert offers the restless migrants from city stress a combination of peace, solitude and a fresh start on a new frontier. "There are three ways of life now," says Indio (Calif.) Publisher Ole Nordland. "The city, the farm and the desert...
...fight." As an idealist, he was from the first at odds with the professional Communists. When Trotsky complained that his individualistic heroes needed "a good dose of Marxism," Malraux bristled, retorted that he was not concerned with collective action, but with the tragic men caught up in the stress of revolution...
...waist is larger and more shapely than Sophia Loren's." Gina replied promptly and "without batting an eyelash," Hedda reported: "I can assure you hers is larger." Concluded Hedda vaguely: "Loren's followers think Gina is too cold. Gina's fans say Loren puts too much stress on sex. It's pretty much the same pattern as Hollywood...
...headed for the U.S. Since 1945, he has been teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife did it." On another occasion, the Sirpos had just moved into a house that was supposed...
Digestive System. Internal evidence from a patient who has an opening in his stomach shows that smoking makes little difference when the smoker is happy and at ease, but if he smokes under stress (as most smokers do), the results may be bad: nausea, stopping of stomach contractions, decrease in blood flow and stomach secretions. When the stomach or duodenum is already diseased (as with ulcers), smoking must be cut down...