Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home were already so scarred by life that they could only be classed as idiots. Unfortunately, he could get no data on the survival or emotional response of the 32 who were placed with foster parents. Those who died, said Dr. Spitz, suffered a gradual breakdown under stress, beginning with loss of appetite and sleeplessness, and ending with inability to withstand even minor ailments. Love-starved, they were crippled in the battle for life...
...first query, even the GOP's own Hercules would admit the inadequacy of his law to handle labor problems in times of national stress. The government's dilemma is this; on one side there are production schedules which must be kept, on the other there is the constitutionally protected right to strike. The Taft-Hartley Law's injunction powers are worthless here because their use simply gives each side eighty days more to think up bigger and better arguments against each other. And if the Miners' strike of 1947 is any indication, the government cannot make an injunction stick anyway...
Finally, at the last drill period, one of the squadron leaders said that the great drive for the dance was being made to further the spirit and unity of the detachment. It seems curious why the stress is placed on the dance. Isn't greater spirit cultivated with inspiring and efficient leaders? Few cadets have ever seen the Colonel of the detachment and there is little friendliness of the officers toward the students. The only time the Colonel spoke to the detachment was to announce that blues would be at Harvard next year for the basic students...
...Charles does not feel that patients alone are to blame. While he regrets that more stress is not put on the need for facing up to difficulties, he admits: "In this age of anxiety and frustration, there is an increase in the number of those who, facing or fearing ill health, are in urgent need of sympathetic and understanding medical advice." Are they likely to get it? "Unfortunately, many of the changes that are taking place in ... medical practice tend to weaken rather than strengthen the traditional tie between the doctor and his patient...
Following their stress on the importance of the role of the family the authors studied the history of delinquency, criminals, alcoholism, mental deficiency, emotional disturbances, and serious physical ailments not only in the immediate family, but in the grandparents, anus uncles. They also studied the cultural, psychological and emotional conditions in the home and the boy's progress in school...