Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stress on bread-and-butter issues?inflation, taxes and spending?has blurred party distinctions, sometimes beyond the point of recognition. Democrats are sounding like Republicans, or even more so. Specifically, Democrats have been quick to sense, and act on, the popular support for some traditional Republican arguments. "It's beginning to look like everybody is in the same party," says...
...Public Defender Gary Schweickart a picture of a rag doll with a noose around its neck, hanging in front of a cracked mirror. Three days later, Arthur was in control, questioning the attorney closely about what had happened and how the other personalities could be protected. Said Schweickart: "The stress of jail and confinement was too much." Psychiatrist Wilbur thinks the prognosis for Milligan is doubtful. So does Milligan. His Tommy personality turned out this poem: / am sorry I took your time/ I am the poem that doesn 't rhyme/ So just turn back the page...
...stress I consider it a fair decision. The rules were written down," Monaghan said...
Nautilus machines, which are now common accoutrements to most professional training rooms, impart degrees of muscle resistance which vary according to muscle movements. The stress is regulated by aluminum "cams" or gears shaped like nautilus shells. In barbell exercises, which are looked at with disdain by Nautilus aficionados, there are stages of too little resistance of "sticking points" with too much stress...
Gogol promised Pushkin, who gave him the idea for the plot, that his play would be "funnier than hell." It is fair to assume that Gogol meant the stress to fall equally on the first and last words. Greatly gifted though he is, Rumanian Director Liviu Ciulei has ignored the balance and projected the work as knockabout farce with an infusion of German impressionism. The result is that the characters become animated puppets and imbecilic caricatures of venality. They are robbed of the quality of vulnerable humanity that lies at the heart of the play, the play wright...