Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dolores Keller, a professor of biology at Pace University and a sex therapist as well, put forth the theory that one of the prime factors in male impotence may be a predisposition to incapacitating stress, transmittable from parent to child...
...kind of fungus that ejects its spores. It might seem a poor choice for the name of a dance troupe, but in an odd way "pilobolus" does suggest their style. Departing from classical ballet form, where the body moves with a fluid grace. Pilobolus has choreographed dances that stress the interaction of human bodies. By contorting their backs and intertwining their limbs these six dancers' can arrange themselves in a staggering number and variety of patterns. The dancers bodies often mingle in such complex and intriguing ways that their limbs and extremities seem extensions of a large fungus-like growth...
...Democrats stress mandatory conservation?a good idea but one that might not work fast enough. Jackson's bill, for example, will probably list such actions as Sunday closings of gas stations, federal regulation of hours of commercial businesses, forced reductions in commercial lighting and regulation of temperatures in commercial and public buildings. But the bill would only give the Federal Energy Administration power to order those standards; it would not compel the agency to do so. There is at least some danger that the final product will be a mishmash of Ford's tariff and a number of halfway conservation...
...Traumatic recollections of the Yom Kippur War continue to haunt and obsess the Israelis," said former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban two weeks ago in Tel Aviv at the First International Conference on Psychological Stress and Adjustment in War and Peace. The war was "a psychological disaster," added Psychologist Richard Lazarus of the University of California at Berkeley. It "may signal the start of a major personality change for Israelis." Constant political tensions, he added, have turned Israel into a "great natural laboratory" for the psychosciences...
...Civilian stress took different forms...