Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie who led the abortive Canadian rebellion of 1837. Khig worships his mother. She left him her devout Scottish Presbyterian belief, a deeply religious strain that sometimes makes King seem self-righteous. An exasperated follower once described him as "a mild megalomaniac with a St. Peter complex...
...Perhaps the psychiatrists, now for the first time having a chance on a large scale . . . are having a field day. . . . It is easy to believe that an undisciplined boy with a spoiled-child complex, an aversion to Army life, a dislike for doing what he is told or a fear of personal injury, gets no help from having his tantrums or fears dignified into psychoneuroses and phobias and learning to talk about himself in psychiatric terms. If ten thousand osteopaths were added to the examining staff, there would probably be an amazing increase in the number of draftees whose vertebrae...
...hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmate-thereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality...
More than anyone else, he has humanized the most complex and mechanized war in history. As John Steinbeck has explained...
...made by U.S. Signal Corps Sergeant Dick Taylor (who, though wounded later, kept at his job) from a landing barge, with his camera focused on the bow. The barge is under fire. The men in it, crouched low, show a physical, animal restlessness more revealing-and far more complex-than any manifestation of pure fear. Beyond the bow of the barge, wavering with the motion of the water, and terrifyingly close, loom the upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly...