Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Subjected to Stress. Deeply inhaled smoke, the researchers found, irritates the cells that line the tiniest chambers of the lung (alveoli). The walls of the alveoli thicken, lose their elasticity and much of their ability to do their vital job of exchanging carbon dioxide for oxygen. Subjected to sudden stress-such as a cough or sneeze-the alveolar walls rupture; part of the lung becomes useless...
These are the men of Harvard--all here for an education, yet quite distinct in their stress of the academic, social, or athletic life...
...diagnosis: "Little League elbow" and "Little League shoulder." Both troubles result from the fact that bone and cartilage in youngsters have not hardened to the point where they can sustain the stress of continued hard pitching. In Little League elbow, the piece of bone that rests at the end of the elbow (the medial epicondylar epiphysis) is pulled out of position by tendons and muscles and is sometimes fractured. In Little League shoulder, the cartilage near the end of the upper arm bone (humerus) is torn loose. Both injuries require immobilization with a cast, splint, or sling...
What killed home shelters was the lull in the cold war plus the Kennedy Administration's decision to stress large-scale, community shelters over backyard bunkers. Says Ray Toland Sr., a Los Angeles shelter maker who failed: "It's been a real loused-up deal. All this blah-blah-blah about a $30 shelter or a $300 shelter, and about private and community shelters. People got so confused they didn't know what was right-and they still don't." In Oklahoma City, the number of inquiries about shelters received monthly by one company has dropped...
...means true--as the apologists for this cruelly ironic version of the underground railroad so often stress--that some good is derived from the White Citizens Council's efforts. But this good amounts to merely temporary charity for a numerically insignificant group...