Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation was having collective nightmares in the late '60s, and Didion connected by writing honestly and well about Viet Nam, runaway children and marital stress. In 1970 she and her husband, Writer John Gregory Dunne, paid $140,000 for a house at Malibu, Calif, where the sun always shines and the cost of real estate is limited only by what the next multimillionaire rock star is willing to pay. There Didion can have her bad dreams in style and gather strength for the promotional tour that is likely to make A Book of Common Prayer a bestseller this spring...
Although three of the students who will go to Colombia are also members of Paynter's year-long seminar on the zoography of South American birds, he was anxious to stress that the trip is not part of the seminar...
...planning officer James T. McGrath says, a "general consensus that a lot more needs to be done" exists among the administration as well as the students. Yet ABLE spokesmen Fiedler and Drickamer stress that "Harvard is not unique" in the problems it poses for the disabled, that it merely reflects conditions throughout society. They feel the University has been cooperative, in view of the problems it faces in meeting their requests. The age of certain buildings does not only present barriers to the disabled but makes the barriers' removal a problem as well. Sever Hall is a National Historic Landmark...
...incidents-and saved all the victims without firing a shot. The emphasis in the program is on psychology; the key rule is to stay cool. About 75% of the officers seeking to attend the program have been turned down because they show signs of inability to handle the extraordinary stress of a hostage situation...
When Mao was under stress, he would sometimes take his troubles out on her. Once, when the Nationalists had started bombing the Communist strongholds in Yenan, she reported to him that his own aides were afraid. "You are a coward!" he snarled at her. Strain sometimes was caused by their strikingly different backgrounds. She was a city girl. Mao came from a well-to-do peasant family, and rebelled against his conservative father-whom, as Chiang Ch'ing recalled, Mao would still curse even when he was in his seventies...