Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zone were booked for 32 assaults, five rapes, three disorderly conducts, and one housebreaking. Cracked an MP officer: "Now that we're getting quantity supplies of Coca-Cola, maybe our boys will get back to behaving." But most G.I.s in Austria already had passing marks for behavior; and many were living up to their orientation slogan, "Soldier, you are helping Austria." The first crop of Austrian babies fathered by helpful G.I.s is sizable...
...thousand other decorations. They lived up to their motto, "Go for Broke":*no less than 650 of the Purple Hearts had to be sent to next of kin (many of them in relocation centers) because the soldiers were dead. The 442nd also set an unbeatable mark for soldierly behavior; no man in the outfit had ever deserted...
...Williams' reputation as the 23 homers he had walloped for the Red Sox. Almost everybody forgot the sad all-star performance of the National Leaguers (who got whitewashed 12-0). Visiting sportswriters who knew the prewar Williams as a sulky swatter whose hitting was good and ballpark behavior was bad wrote glowing stories acclaiming him for what he was: the best hitter in baseball...
...first column under the new banner, Frank Owen complained about the postwar "degeneration of behavior" in Great Britain. Wrote...
Upon these basic rules (and others closely related), physicists built an imposing structure of knowledge. They predicted the motions of the earth, the moon, the planets. They derived a maze of useful mechanical sub-laws. They explained the behavior of gases, and discovered the nature of heat. Newton's laws did not account for everything, but the physicists felt that this was due to their own ignorance. Eventually, they were sure, all phenomena could be explained in Newton's terms...