Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roles of a woman and a successful female athlete are incompatible in the United States. The woman who wishes to participate in sports and remain 'womanly' faces great stress. By choosing sport, she usually places herself outside the social mainstream...
Hardy said he will stress aggressiveness, especially for the big men. "The big men are going to be very physical this year." Hardy said. When asked to point out aggressive players, Hardy said. "Brian Newmark is a very heady ballplayer. He is what I call a real team player. Brain can go in and he will set up the other four so that they can score...
...establishment as a means of maintaining control. Other inmates find it the only way of preserving their anal virginity. For many--both prisoners and guards--it is as familiar and necessary as breathing. Yet, just as it is on the outside, violence is only a symptom of more fundamental stress or change...
...means by which the hormone adrenaline regulates the breakdown of carbohydrates stored in the liver. He learned that adrenaline works by activating the enzyme phosphorylase. a chemical catalyst that triggers the release of energy-producing glucose. This explains how the body produces additional energy under stress. Then, in 1958, Sutherland isolated a previously unknown chemical called cyclic adenosine 3'5'-monophosphate, or cyclic AMP, that functions in an intermediary role in many hormonal processes...
...Soledad Brother, Jackson does not often refer to his Harrisburg experiences or his childhood relationship with his grandfather, summoning them as one does things very fragile and rare only at times of greatest stress. They seem to have constituted the last line of his defense of his own humanity during his ten year struggle to escape death on the installment plan in the penitentaries of California...