Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hersey, who had spent a similar week with Harry Truman in the White House in 1951, scrutinized the President for any telltale "signals of stress under the calm exterior." But none were evident. The author speculates that Ford has so long been on the losing political side in the "national poker game" as a minority Congressman that he has learned to mask his feelings completely...
...handful of foreign correspondents stationed in the North Vietnamese capital to visit the captured areas. Thus most of the scattered reports about conditions in South Viet Nam's northern provinces have been issued by the "Liberation Press Agency" of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. These euphoric communiqués stress the "delirious welcomes from the crowds" and the "joy on the part of the liberated populations" but say little about what has been happening to the people or the problems the Communists face in taking over so large an area so rapidly...
...profile to an hour and forty-five minutes on a toughone Occassionally, Reardon said, tempers get out of hand in the committee. "I've seen one person take a poke at another person. It doesn't happen very often...When you're dealing with that kind of stress over a number of days, there are some disagreements that get sort of personalized...
Sergeant Dale Jackson returns to his Detroit ghetto home in a morphine induced stupor, drained by emotional stress and battle fatigue. After an initial feeling of release, he grows despondent, spending most of his days lying in bed staring at the ceiling. Tortured by a recurring nightmare in which he stands looking into an immense gun barrel, he is finally admitted to the Valley Forge Army Hospital. Essentially, Jackson can't understand why fate or circumstance or coincidence has allowed him to live when his war buddies became charred heaps during an ambush; why he was decorated with the Congressional...
Career counselors increasingly stress the necessity of working with "difficult" people or those who are in some way different from ourselves. In view of the current broadening of the workforce to include people of more diverse ages, particularly women, an ability to deal with people of all ages is essential. While an age differential within an undergraduate House of one, two, three, or possibly a few more years is not large numerically. I think most of us would agree that the gap in maturity is far from insignificant. The challenge of living with those of other ages is, I believe...