Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meeting Carter this week in London, Turkish Premier Suleyman Demirel will undoubtedly complain that Greece is getting preferential treatment. Demirel will also stress that no Turkish government can negotiate a Cyprus agreement under U.S. pressure, particularly in the midst of an election campaign so violent that 36 people were killed last week in Istanbul...
Throughout Frost's Watergate assault, the old Nixon mannerisms inject an uneasy déja vu. The most discomforting is his reflexive, contrived smile, flashed?when he is under harsh attack. Sometimes his face freezes impassively, his eyelids fluttering. He stutters a bit under stress, and his syntax breaks down. At certain moments his lips shut tight, his mouth seems to shrink...
...study, The American Family Report: Raising Children in a Changing Society, was based on a probability sampling of 1,230 households with one or more children under 13. It found that 43% of the parents belong to the "New Breed." They stress freedom over authority, self-fulfillment over material success, and duty to self over duty to others-including their own children. The study found that New Breed parents are loving but self-oriented, and they take a laissez-faire attitude to their own child rearing. Says Yankelovich: "It's not the permissiveness of the '50s, which...
...would not dare interrupt the president with ordinary school problems because "he's too important now." Another student says, "Father Ted is usually too busy playing world savior." Both of them are swift to add, however, they think Hesburgh is the main force behind Notre Dame's stress on values...
Doubtless. And perhaps if the film were made with real flak, one would feel like toying with its mystical precepts. But Director Wise cannot think of any way to stress the spooky except to drench scenes in rain, while Writer De Felitta cranks out undigested research. They are very tedious fellows...