1.   But the soft-spoken Dillon said the recent spate of national traumas had brought out the presidential bearing of Clinton.

2.   Clinton also suggested that a bitterly divisive impeachment trial could cause a national trauma.

3.   Eleanor Roosevelt bolstered her husband, Franklin, during times of national trauma and was greatly admired for her leadership and causes.

4.   Escapism has its place in times of national trauma.

5.   Had the Pentagon Papers been made public earlier, there is no telling how many deaths and how much national trauma might have been avoided.

6.   He is a part of our national trauma, shaking off his authority just when questions of nationhood and statehood are being widely discussed.

7.   He said that the academy is enduring some of the same difficulties as other cultural organizations, facing economic crunches at a time of economic slowdown and national trauma.

8.   In both countries the disaster took on the aspect of a collective national trauma the like of which few living citizens had ever known.

9.   Psychologists also are concerned that the national trauma is hitting particularly hard on those people with pre-existing depression and anxiety disorders.

10.   That alone is a matter of national trauma.