Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bugs & Bandits. The Latin Americans, by their own behavior, were slowly disposing of an old Yankee prejudice: that South America is a land of bugs, bandits and bloody revolution. True, revolts still occur; Latin America had four major ones in 1945, but no U.S. citizen was killed in them. As for banditry, a U.S. ambassador to Mexico's reply to a worried prospective U.S. visitor was illuminating: "Completely safe [to come to Mexico] if you don't stop in Chicago." Common precautions against dysentery would circumvent "tourist tummy," but a hypersensitive fear of native foodstuffs ("Are the oranges...
There seems to be a lot of criticism of the behavior of our Army of Occupation [TIME, Nov. 19]. Some of our freeborn citizens are showing shocked surprise that the American soldier is not acting like the true, redblooded, 100% American the blueprints originally called for. Well, gentlemen, brace yourselves; I am coming out swinging...
...demobilization about half complete last week, such incidents were happily rare. Out of nearly 9,000 demobilized war dogs returned to their civilian owners, fewer than a dozen have been reported as troublemakers. Army, Marine, and Coast Guard trainers have received hundreds of letters praising the model behavior of canine veterans since their return to civilian life...
Charlie: Tough rap. No time off for good behavior? Why were you sent up for so long...
...there. For a time, with impish delight, he walked the tight wire between good fun and bad taste. On his pub-crawling beat, sipping an occasional dark-rum Daiquiri, he ogled the rhinestone in a stripteaser's navel, tattled on the Duchess of Windsor's powder-room behavior (she left the maid...