Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Ozie Powell leaned forward and sliced a deputy sheriff in the neck with a knife. The sheriff then shot off a portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles on to Birmingham where a surgeon extracted a slug sunk one inch in his brain...
...History repeats-I am becoming dimly conscious of the fact that this year we are to have a national election. Sometimes at the close of a day I say to myself that the last national election must have been held a dozen years ago-so much water has run under the bridge, so many great events in our history have occurred since then. And yet 34 months, less than three years, have gone by since March...
Geometry is not class-conscious. The pons asinorum is free to all comers and even the eternal triangle's points are true for either hemisphere. On such a Euclidean axiom James Hanley posits his latest diatribe, in novel form, against the race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...
...faithful is Author Hanley to his apparently, humble thesis that only once or twice does he let his consciousness of higher triangles appear. When he does, his thesis does not appear so humble. Author Hanley's awkwardly compressed style (he seems to have a scunner against both definite and indefinite articles) is not calculated to please readers of any class: "He, being conscious of battery of stares from inquisitive people, only drew himself higher, proud, like greatest King in land." But Hanley's matter is meaty enough for those but the fullest...
...minority of Harvard Students were voting with nine out of every ten of their fellow citizens. Let us hope the clamor of the newly self conscious aged can be put off indefinitely and yielded to so gradually, that the eventual effect won't be chaos, and then the Happening Here...