Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post (at 35 he was managing editor of the New York Herald Tribune). His handling of NBC's $100 million annual news budget will get close scrutiny, both from Madison Avenue and competitors. "We'll make changes," Wald said, "but not immediately." As if to stress the amicable nature of the change in command, he summoned a quip for his first day on the job: "I plan to continue in the grand tradition of American journalism, and I'll figure out tomorrow what that...
Despair was not the exclusive product of domestic or personal stress. In Virginia's creative method were visible the pleasures and pains of creative activity almost as no other artist has demonstrated them. Her remorse was usually given articular expression, as in this 1911 letter to Vanessa...
...Intellectual development is much more plastic than anyone has surmised," Kagan said in the report. He suggested that schools stress achievement in music, painting, or public speaking. "The indispensable thing a child needs from his early school years is the knowledge that there are important skills at which he is competent," Kagan told the AAAS...
When he dies, most of the world hopes that those in Taiwan will seek to establish their island as a separate country, and give up their contingency plans for reinvading the mainland. On Taiwan, this prospect is considered privately but never mentioned publicly. Instead, news articles prefer to stress the 10 per cent growth...
Ultracritical. As Truman's physician since his White House days, Surgeon Graham was forewarned of how this last illness might manifest itself. When he was under exceptional stress as President, Truman had developed noisy breathing (technically, "rales") which, Graham recalls, he seemed able to control by sheer will power. Over the years the rales recurred occasionally. About two years ago, Truman pointed to his head and told Graham: "I feel as though I have a little hot wire up here." When he had that feeling, the ex-President lost some of his famed alertness. Also, he said: "My eyeballs...