Word: complexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was the small man with the big remains that Bragg's were colorful. Their muscles, the close combat instructor and fiendish ("scrub barracks tonight") platoon sergeant. He had the "cadre complex" and had it bad, and was continually nasty in a high-pitched way. Then came the first cool day, when he winsomely confided that he was an ex-English teacher, that his greatest ambition was to come to Harvard after the war as a graduate student, "and just read for a year...
...Lerner's lecture is part of Ford Hall Forum's policy this year of bringing to its platform many outstanding journalists to interpret the complex problems of the coming victory and the post-war world. He will discuss the relationships between America and the Allies after the war and the direction our foreign policy is leading...
...also generally recognized that Seurat's genius was only in small part attributable to his method, to the science of optics or of anything else. He was a "divisionist," to be sure, but he was first & foremost a great painter-a master of complex composition (the receding planes in La Grande Jatte are extraordinary) and an inspired colorist. He produced only seven large, major canvases, but his hundreds of drawings and oil sketches are rarities in themselves, and his calm vacation seascapes painted at Honfleur and Grandcamp are among the finest chapters in the painted literature of the ocean...
Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...
...jaundiced view of the rest of the world. But the new foreign speculation has been accompanied by persistent defeatism about the prospects of many much healthier domestic securities. So far as peace at home is concerned, the average U.S. investor is still suffering from a 1930-style persecution complex...