Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon spoke to an audience of 5,000 that included civic and labor Pooh-Bahs but was dominated by businessmen. The President noted that he was rather "like the preacher talking to the choir." Members of the choir liked the President's sermon-and no wonder. It put stress on protecting domestic industry and boosting profits...
...against the security of this country." The statement went on to make it absolutely clear that unless Soviet officials stopped spying, Britain was prepared to oppose an all-European conference at which the Soviets hope to win Western recognition of the status quo in Eastern Europe. Home will undoubtedly stress this point during a face-to-face meeting with Gromyko this week in New York City...
...cell anemia has been an unheralded killer. It does not occur in dramatic epidemics. Its victims in the U.S. are mostly blacks, and they generally receive less medical attention than whites. The malady affects the red blood cells, which normally are spherical. When the anemia victim is under any stress that reduces the oxygen supply in his blood, his red cells elongate into firm gel-like crescents ("sickles") that block narrow capillaries and deprive tissues of vital oxygen...
Skinner was sensitive to criticism that Deborah was isolated. In his articles and lectures, he took pains to stress that she could watch everything that was taking place in the room about her, and that she was frequently taken out for cuddling and play. To many people, however, the air box sounded and looked like an atrocious human goldfish bowl...
...Duncan's best work, however, is his war photography; he operates superbly under stress. "Anyone," he declares, "can take good war pictures provided he's in the right place at the right time." Perhaps. But only a small number of other photographers, such as Britain's Don McCullin or the U.S.'s W. Eugene Smith and Carl Mydans, have equaled Duncan in the dreadful succinctness of their images...