Word: trauma
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...battlefront, the folks on the home front serenaded Rosie the Riveter; a long day's work was a contribution to the national defense. In sum, the American work ethic is rooted in Puritan piety, immigrant ambition and the success ethic; it has been strengthened by Depression trauma and wartime patriotism...
...professional education lobbyists such as the American Council on Education and the American Association of Universities rising around House chambers, added to the frantic noises of private colleges, the arguments advanced by Daly won two showdowns by five vote margins. The colleges, at least private ones, were spared the trauma of sex-blind admissions...
While Harvard Square wavers between trauma and elation, construction of a new high-rise and planning for an underground garage is proceeding apace. The building and garage magnifiers as well as symptoms of the Square's mixed anticipation of the John F Kennedy Library Center have proven no less controversial than the Kennedy Center itself...
...says, 'So-and-so turns me on; I'm going to spend the night with him.' Despite the contract they've made, the boy is inevitably enraged, because he feels it's understood that such things hurt him." When the hurt is great enough to end the affair, the trauma for both may approach that of divorce, or worse. One college student asked his high school girl friend to live in his room with him, and then watched despairingly as she fell in love with his roommate, and, overcome with grief and confusion, tried to commit suicide...
...system has proved a striking success. Though hard figures are unavailable, some hospital officials place the average national death rate from serious accidents at 13%. Of the 13,000 patients treated by the new trauma network since its establishment, only 260, or 2%, have died...