Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behavior of Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford had been puzzling White House newsmen for a week and a half. In view of the political debacle facing the Truman Administration, it was hard to understand how handsome Mr. Clifford could look so happy and knowing. He looked like a man who had something up his sleeve...
...Bills." Candidate Thurmond would never admit that the issue could be put in such black & white terms. He draped his case in the dialectics of states' rights. In his harsh, flat voice he denied the authority of Washington to interfere with the South's pattern of behavior. These were the "fo'ce bills" which he denounced...
...such enfeebling concepts as self-doubt and humility. He had well-founded doubts, however, of his children's self-reliance. "It is dangerous for you," he often informed Osbert, Sacheverell and Edith, "to lose touch with me for a single day." Like many Victorians, he invested his maddest behavior with an aura of impeccable sanity...
...inner braintrust, but unlike C. B. Baldwin and some of the other Department strategists, he has not followed Wallace to the new hunting grounds. In his Washington office he is still sorting election returns as a hobby, which in 1940 resulted in the publication of a book called "Ballot Behavior" now a text for the technical politician. His newest book, as he says, is nothing more than application of the statistical techniques developed then, though it is written for more mass circulation...
President Conant yesterday cited the twin evils of panic and panacea as the main blocks to rational behavior in the world of today...