Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...menopausal women; after the menopause, women gradually become as susceptible as men, though it takes them until age 80 to catch up. Racial origin, body build, smoking habits and the amount of physical activity also have been implicated. And, of course, the Gog and Magog of modern medicine: stress and strain...
...anti-Communist by remaining pro-female; whenever the Reds got too rough, he paid them no mind, just conjured up an image of "Baby," a composite of the girl-in-every-port, and chatted with her. Wayne pilots his old tub by night and fog, through storm and boiler stress, gun fight and slugfest, not omitting to make Mao's navy look like a fleet of Sunday oarsmen. But what matters most is that the end frame finds the hero safe in port (Lauren Bacall...
Yesterday, the same, units that played against the Big Red ran offensive plays against J.V.'s, and Jordan continued to stress higher and harder tackling than was used in Saturday's game...
...priest question touched on an old issue. Episcopalians consider themselves Catholic, believing that their church as much as Rome is the true spiritual heir of St. Peter. To stress this point, some Episcopalians prefer not to call themselves Protestants at all. At Northfield the delegates considered a motion recommending that "Protestant" be dropped from the title of the Protestant Episcopal Church. But the Young Churchmen voted it down, 172 to 127, expressed their position in a song (to the tune of God Bless America...
Aircraft designers, forever increasing the capabilities of their planes, must constantly make expensive compromises to take care of the pilot. Until Medico Stapp came along with his cool scientist's insistence on using himself as guinea pig, fighter-planes were built to stand an expected stress of nine gs. It hardly seemed worth while to make them stronger. The human body, the engineers insisted (and most doctors believed), could not take greater physical strain. Not the machine but man himself appeared to be limiting man's conquest of the jet age. However the engineers tried, they could...