Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neuburger hopes to rent 250.000 sq. ft. of space in Gorky Park to private U.S. firms, at $6 per sq. ft. for building space and $3 for open space. Though firms will be allowed to exhibit whatever they please, the fair's directors stress audience-participation exhibits and displays that demonstrate the U.S. way of life. Neuburger plans to have a U.S. supermarket, beauty shows, jiffy shoe repairing shops for Russian visitors; he also hopes to bring some U.S. artists to Moscow to exhibit, get 50 university professors to lecture at the fair. Says...
...decision to shuttle Cabinet officers like badminton birds between Washington and Denver was made by the White House staff as a whole. But Hagerty, who does not consider it his duty to stress the dark side of presidential life, certainly saw to it that the visiting dignitaries, and the routine papers they brought for the President to sign, were heralded in headlines. He produced them for interviews and at least once handed a Cabinet member a statement to read about how well Ike looked-before the man had even been in to see the President...
President Eisenhower last week warned Congress of the dangers of the U.S.S.R.'s "intensive economic offensive," and Secretary of State Dulles took three opportunities to stress, with deep earnestness, the U.S. determination to meet Russia's threat in aid to underdeveloped lands. Even as they talked, the Soviet Union accented the urgency of the matter by probing energetically for economic openings and weaknesses in South America...
...Battle fatigue and anxiety neurosis have been shown to make victims react violently to a soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear of getting drunk and looking ridiculous, increases the danger that it will happen...
People who have recourse to fingernail-biting in moments of stress are advised to grow them long in preparation for The Bridge on the River Kwai...