Word: conciousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They know that if the South is to rise again, it will not be with Confederate dollars. With a fervor which rivals Southern Baptism, they cultivate Northern investment. They are inordinately self-concious and are feverishly concerned about the "image of the South." Because ready capital has replaced the boll weevil as the South's most persistent problem, they are willing even to forsake sacred traditions to attract outside investment...
...Bostonians, many of them professors at M.I.T., Brandeis, and Boston University, challenged Khrushchev's repeated assertions that the Soviet Union is dedicated to peace and disarmament. "We are convinced that any nation that puts its own military security above the interests of humanity as a whole is making a concious choice that will inevitably lead to a thermonuclear war," they stated...
...League, much to the delight of publicity men and attendance-concious athletic directors and to the frustration of coaches and bookies, is as weird as ever. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth are doing better than expected; Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Cornell are somewhat disappointing. And then here is Brown, which should get sick of losing about the time the Bruins come to Cambridge, and Harvard, which is a little off the pace without Charlie Ravenel but nonetheless very much in contention for the title...