Word: bedrock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike but the bush pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began flying home...
...Fifty to 75 leathery old prospectors refused to believe the geologists, the calamity howlers or anyone else. This week they were building log foundations for their tents, ordering prospectors' boilers (for thawing ground) and preparing to drive shafts to bedrock, if necessary, before surrendering...
...coined the term "conditioned reflex." (Pavlov's classic example: a dog which has heard a bell ring whenever it was fed will eventually drool whenever it hears the bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next...
...humblest and least educated hearer. This has been a priceless gift. Muñoz built his political career on the support of Puerto Rico's jibaros, the small farmers and rural workers who comprise about 70% of his island's population. They are still the bedrock basis of his power...
...another lyric he expresses his bedrock feeling toward human beings which goes beyond any theory about them...