Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard defense turned in another fine performance with captain Cynthia Jensen leading the way. Jensen used her stickhandling experience to rob the ball away from the B.C. attack whenever they tried to squeeze past her toward the goal...
...state, it's a family." A family of 3,000 princes. And corruption reaches the sky there. So they better be careful. They have South Yemen on their border, and in South Yemen there are already Cubans. So they shouldn't behave so haughtily toward everybody, including Israel. They have all that oil, but they cannot drink it. They have to sell that oil to get those billions of petrodollars. So they better be careful and think about their own safety and not try to exploit the issue of East Jerusalem...
Each day millions of Americans talk, scream, confront, jump, paint, dance, strip, tickle and grope their way toward emotional fulfillment. They are sampling one or more of the 200 or so therapies and countless pseudo therapies that are now being peddled in the U.S. as panaceas for unhappiness, anxiety or worse. At one end of this therapeutic spectrum are such exuberant exercises in self-help as biofeedback and Transcendental Meditation; at the other end, close-order drill for the psyche, like est. All but trampled by this stampede toward satisfaction lies the battered body of the medical specialty that once...
Freudian psychoanalysts in particular, who account for only 10% of the nation's psychiatrists, have felt the common unhappiness of post-Freudian deflation. Freudian talk therapy is designed for the less seriously ill, precisely the constituency that has shifted toward quick Pop treatments. A 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that the average psychoanalyst had 4.7 patients under treatment, down from 6.2 a decade earlier. Applications to the Freudian training institutes are also declining. When Psychoanalyst Herbert Hendin director of the Center for Psychosocial Studies in Montrose, N Y., applied to the prestigious Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training...
...chemical restraints: they calm the schizophrenic but often turn him into little more than a zombie in the process. As Psychologist Steven Matthysse of the Mailman Research Center explains, while agitation and disordered thought diminish in the drugged patient, the drugs do very little to move the patient toward recovery or to help him relate to other people. Says Matthysse: "It's a sad thing, but a schizophrenic [on drugs] is very rarely motivated to do anything really consequential...