Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what they please but will not let children do what they please. If children brood on this situation too much, or if the situation gets them down, they can develop obsessions, phobias, complexes, neuroses as black-fledged as any grownup's. In general, the symptoms are abnormal behavior-tantrums, lethargy, refusal to eat, overeating, wetting their beds "when they are old enough to know better...
...Once the key to his behavior has been found, it shows an underlying consistency...
...Cross will send six U. S. experts to supervise the job and each Spanish agency distributing Red Cross food will be held responsible for the food it receives, must sign a receipt for each case it serves. To put all parties, including Nazis, on their best behavior, to make future U. S. aid contingent on honest handling of this first consignment, the Red Cross agreed with the British that further development of the program depends on the fulfillment of the terms under which the first is sent...
...behavior hung the shape of the future. His civilized toughness, his balanced courage and his simple pride altered the course of history in 1940. Without him there could have been no Churchill...
...makes them study hard (eight classes a day). Each afternoon a Canterburian puts on a dark blue or grey suit, white shirt and black shoes (Eton collars and patent-leather pumps were discarded about ten years ago) for tea. Canterbury boys get no demerits, but for good behavior they get two extra days off at Christmas and Easter vacations. Few Canterburians misbehave, for few care to provoke Dr. Hume's anger, his great, booming voice...