Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rocket climbed, Shepard calmly reported the growing Gs of acceleration and the state of the capsule's pressure and oxygen supply. The Gs rose to four, then five, but his voice showed no sign of stress...
...that he should have been relieved of the strain of flight duty while undergoing treatment for his condition." For the first time in aviation history, an official CAB report said of a crash: "A contributing factor to the accident may have been preoccupation of the captain resulting from mental stress...
...PROMOTION. Bright young officers should get faster promotion, with less stress on seniority. Said Connally: "Could we not make changes in our selection system to permit earlier determination of an officer's ability to command, and thereafter be able to use officers in billets of great importance for longer periods of time? Officers should be promoted not on their ability to keep their finger on their number, but on past and present demonstration of initiative and courage...
...Security Council, and only the Security Council initiated debate. But now, "the General Assembly has assumed all powers. It can deliberate on everything, without and even against the advice of the Security Council." Many of the new members are "improvised states and believe it their duty to stress grievances or demands with regard to older nations, rather than elements of reason and progress...
...Einaudi has declined to sign the petition, maintaining that it ought to stress "political, not legal and psuedo moralistic problems...