Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson Administration occurred last summer during the early campus-based protests against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Applying a scathingly articulate scorn honed by years of campus oneupmanship, Bundy met the critics on their own ground. "I think many of them have been wrong in earlier moments of stress and danger," he declared. "I think many of them misunderstand the hard realities of this dangerous world...
...untouched. If anything, Party Boss Brezhnev was strengthened by Podgorny's isolation, while Premier Aleksei Kosygin benefited by Shelepin's removal from the government side of the Kremlin power structure. Significantly, the budget that was passed by acclamation before the personnel changes were announced once again put stress on consumer goods and light industrial development-two aims in which Brezhnev and Kosygin concur. With much snarling about warlike U.S. imperialism, they also raised the Soviet defense budget by 5%. But the hike was in keeping with overall budget increases, and the snarling was foreshadowed by a churlish interview...
...Plan. In place of traditional monetary tightening, the Administration has so far tried a new, direct approach to cope with inflation. It has used a number of flexible weapons, including more stress of the guidelines and on the use of stockpiles to restrain prices. Johnson's economic advisers have been counting on such measures to hold the line for the next few months until the upward pressures on the economy can be relieved by growing plant and equipment expansion...
...psychiatrist, Coles' original interest was in pathology in situations of abnormal stress, and his first work was on families where children had been stricken with polio. During an Air Force tour of duty in Mississippi, Coles' range of concern widened. Struck by the dramatic collapse of a social and psychological way of life, he turned to study white and Negro children, along with their parents and teachers, under the heavy strains of school desegregation. He wanted to see how people managed the exertion of exchanging old ways of life for new ones. He refused to polarize his compassion, seeing...
...Mary suffered from an acutely active gastric ulcer. He also concludes that in terms of modern psychiatry she was a medically certifiable hysteric. He blames her neurosis on her troubled childhood in the first instance, and unusual height. As a child, she fell into sobbing tantrums in times of stress. In later life, she always got sicker when her fortunes ebbed-in one crisis she lost the use of her legs for some weeks. If she was a hysteric, Author Davison considers it highly unlikely that Mary was driven by lust to contrive the death of her husband. Instead, like...