Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow sense, Lyndon Johnson could function superlatively under stress. He could rap out hard decisions, maneuver in delicate foreign squabbles, intervene effectively in complex labor disputes. But in the less tangible sphere of sustaining the nation's confidence, understanding the drift of opinion, coping with articulate critics, Johnson was all too vulnerable...
...emphasis has been on agriculture for the past few years. Outside San José, a town east of Havana, a huge billboard proclaims that "agriculture is to the revolution what the mountains are to guerrillas." While there has been a serious effort at crop diversification, Cuba continues to stress the production of sugar, which constitutes 85% of its exports. Everywhere in the land, posters call for "los diez millones," the 10 million tons of sugar that Castro wants by 1970, as opposed to a bare 5.2 million tons harvested last year and an alltime high of 7.22 million tons...
Uncharted Perils. The drama visibly affected normally imperturbable space officials. "If we hadn't had other manned flights before," said Kennedy Space Center Director Kurt Debus, "the excitement, the stress would be unendurable. To go to the moon is symbolic of mans leaving earth, of opening vast new frontiers." The impending flight inspired Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, to deliver a rhapsodic Christmas message to the centers 4,500 employees: "Perhaps the ancient mariners had the same feeling of anticipation as they set sail through the Straits of Gibraltar past the limits of the known world...
...audience. In a 15-minute speech, the retired marshal gave the commencement address to the graduating class of the army's high-command school in Rio de Janeiro. Since the audience included military men who had engineered the coup, Costa e Silva went out of his way to stress two points. One, hardly necessary for him to state to such a group, was that the officers were justified in their crackdown...
Your case is indeed a serious one. No, I am afraid I cannot justify your shopping without taking The Book with you. As I have tried to stress to all my reading Public, the owner of A Confederate General from Big Sur does not possess a material "book." He has, rather, a warm piece of earth, complete with weeds, dirt, three or four gross-thingies, and all the little strings than hang down from pieces of earth. A very drunk young Pakistani once told...