Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, entitled Law and Lawyers in the United States: The Common Law Under Stress, Griswold said that the great hopes embodied in the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution "have continuously eluded our grasp...
Mandatory Reports. "Child abuse is not a new phenomenon," says Katherine B. DeHinger, chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau. What is new is the increase and violence in the attacks. Under the stress of modern life, more and more parents apparently vent anger and frustration on the easiest targets at hand. But while it is relatively easy to recognize a case of child beating, it is relatively difficult to nab the child beaters. They invariably deny responsibility, often take the victim to a different doctor after each successive beating. Since the infant can rarely speak for himself...
From Jason's Argo to the America's Cup winner Constellation, good ship architecture has always depended heavily on intuition. But feel-of-the-sea design is increasingly tested and checked by the complex sciences of fluid dynamics and molecular stress. Nowhere in the U.S. are ancient skills and new techniques taught more tautly than at New York's Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, a Long Island college whose 70 students get room, board, books and tuition free, and almost always wind up at the top of their profession...
Bierweiler devised ingenious programs of economizing to aid the museum in periods of financial stress, and attempted to get grants for such desperately needed (and still lacking) improvements as an elevator to take tourists to the Glass Flowers on the third floor...
Logical Customers. The new executive line-up is meant to maintain the initiative. Tooker will administer the company and oversee investments, which lean more strongly than in most companies on Government bonds but also stress mortgages on one-family homes ($500 million worth) occupied by the kind of people who are logical customers for multiple insurance. Meanwhile, DeWitt will concentrate on Travelers' newest venture. The company is moving overseas. Beginning with insurance on the growing number of U.S. corporations and families at work abroad, it intends to go on from there to spread its umbrellas around the world...