Word: stress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to face: the gulf that separated Communist Russia from the democracies. Serious consideration of postwar Germany could be postponed. The Far East could be settled by thrusting concessions upon Stalin. The deeply symbolic differences in the U.N. Charter could be bridged by words never destined to bear the stress of reality. But Poland was immediate and concrete, already the subject of angry public debate. How the fate of Poland was settled at Yalta is a story that contains, in a small-scale model, all the elements of the larger story of how the West lost the peace...
...School's emphasis is on the visual arts," he continued. "In teaching architecture, of course, we lay stress on the fact that buildings must have permanence, that they must last, but we are very much concerned with aesthetics, for architects should build beautiful buildings," he said...
...gives it only secondary attention. Other engineering schools, notably those of Northwestern and Cornell, have five year program in effect; but they only grant single Bachelor of Science degrees. Outside educators also find that these schools waste early years on secondary school level material and thus later have to stress technical work rather than liberal arts...
Nobody was unkind enough to stress the fact that Rome's long-dreamed-of subway was a mere seven miles long (only 3^ miles of it underground) and apparently designed to carry its passengers from nowhere to nowhere. Built well away from the heart of the city where the real traffic congestion lies, its ten stations (with such impressive names as Colosseum and Circus Maximus) trail out in a dreary anticlimax through Rome's environs to the great cluster of derelict, half-completed marble buildings which Mussolini once hoped would become the site of a permanent World...
Studying the histories of 39 Helsinki hospital patients who died of coronary occlusion after stays of seven to 42 days, Dr. Jarvinen discovered that six of them, subject to severe emotional stress, had died during or after a physician's visit. Among the cases...