Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The plump little Caudillo has recently had an extremely cold shoulder from all the major Allies. The Tangier conference door was slammed in his face (TIME, Sept. 3). Plagued by drought and lack of food (Spain needs nearly 2,000,000 tons of imported wheat), the Spanish people grow constantly...
¶The young woman who was always late to appointments. She was the youngest of three children, and at first her father liked the others best. She "rejected his love with a fierce hatred" when he finally showed affection. Result: "Everything in life came too late for her."
¶ The "as ifs." These are people who act as if they are perfectly normal, but actually lack the ability to feel affection or attachment to anyone. So they usually imitate others, which makes some of them perverted, others virtuous. One patient bought a dog to imitate its friendliness.
This time Charles de Gaulle was smiling, cordial, no longer unbending. His mission was obvious: to regain U.S. affection for France. He stepped out of the big, silvery Avro York plane jauntily, moved rapidly through the line of stiff-standing French officers to greet Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes...
Brighter Radiance. When the Crown had played its part as the symbol of unity and of the continuity of free government, Prime Minister Attlee spoke: "In this country we are blessed with a King who . . . combines with an intense love of our country and of all his people a thorough...