Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saigon. Others knew that the facts were not so simple. At any rate, Ford's closest White House advisers, including Counsellor Robert Hartmann, felt that nothing could be gained by dwelling on past mistakes or misguided policy, and they pleaded for a forward-looking presidential leadership that would stress the need for national unity...
...little Protestant church next to the U.S. embassy, and those who did were tense and anxious. In one pew, a young Vietnamese girl and her brother, both refugees and no older than 14, sat alone. She wept openly, and the boy held her hand throughout the service. "Amid great stress and suffering," intoned the Anglican priest, "we come to a celebration of life-baptism." Then he sprinkled holy water on an adult Vietnamese convert and christened him Michael...
Both Mosley and Cohen also stress that the admissions committees are biased toward applicants from non-Ivy League schools. "We hope to find people who have come from junior or community colleges and really need the richer opportunities Radcliffe provides," explains Cohen. "Social value admits" is what Mosley calls these students...
...Robert Christian), a black, and Ella (Trish Van Devere), a white, had been childhood playmates. Growing up, she marries a boxer who deserts her. Despite her aversion to blacks, Ella then marries Jim. However, the stress of social ostracism drives her insane, and she prays for Jim to flunk his bar exams, which he does. With his dream shattered, Jim reverts to a kind of devoted slave to a spectral child bride...
...took it rather well, considering. His hair began to grey and his patience with students to thin, but most of the time there were few signs of stress. He made for himself a host of enemies, not the least of whom was the Crimson, which for years ran a picture of him holding a bull-horn and standing outside University Hall. Many students were more direct in their attacks. I remember vivid, scary accounts of harrassments and building occupation...