Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as important as these statistics to Miss Mac was the fact that her blue-clad girls had been models of correct, seamanlike behavior before the U.S. public. WAVES might not like their grim hours, the discipline, the hard work, but almost to a woman they were resolved to stick it out without audible griping...
...packed off to Camp Roberts, Cal. There he continued to make his views clear. He refused to obey orders and was court-martialed and given six months in the clink. Released for good behavior, he refused to drill with his squad. "I would rather be shot," he declared. Instead, he was court-martialed again and sentenced to be hanged...
...enemy's whole behavior in Manila followed a planned dog-in-the-manger pattern. Early in December, a month before the landings at Lingayen Gulf, the Japs had installed demolition charges in large buildings. Flimsy warehouses had been stocked with drums of gasoline. Forty-eight hours after U.S. forces entered northern Manila. Jap demolition engineers pressed the buttons. Electrically connected charges went off in series. The main business district-eight blocks of the Calle Escolta-began to burn. There was no water pressure to fight the fires. Many Filipinos looked on apathetically, made no move to help U.S. soldiers...
...molecule, magnified nearly 100,000,000 times (its actual size: one forty-millionth of an inch), is hexamethylbenzene, an organic compound derived from coal tar. Its design, deduced from its chemical behavior, has long been pictured in chemistry books as follows...
...Germans at Arizona's desert-bordered Papago Park camp were full of wooden-faced horseplay. Prisoners nagged their guards, sometimes hid for days only to turn up well-fed and grinning. They were tough, picked men, almost all from Nazi U-boat crews. Beneath their erratic behavior guards could sense some hidden discipline, could only guess, month after month, at its purpose. Last week the patternless war of nerves seemed to be approaching a climax. Hundreds of prisoners formed ranks one afternoon to cheer the German advances on the western front. Then, as guards advanced, the shouting stopped...