Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blazing court. He smashed through five games in a row, making Cochet run as far as possible in every rally. Cochet picked up one game on his own serve but Perry quickly took the next one and" the set, 6-1. In the dressing-room, Perry fainted. Cochet, still conscious but very sad, explained his fall: "At the beginning, everything was all right. Toward the end . . . my legs began to fail me, and that was the finish...
Rescuers found Amy Mollison sitting in the mud beside the total wreck of the Seafarer, cradling her half-conscious husband's bleeding head in her lap. It took hospital surgeons an hour to stitch the pair's gashes, but they had escaped serious injury. Said he: "I was so tired I couldn't tell where I was putting her." Cried she: "He couldn't see! He couldn...
...abide by these rules, thus in general they are followed; and the athlete finds himself, much to his delight, in the best of health and quite ready to produce his best when the time comes. In contrast the Englishman, instead of suddenly finding himself in condition is much more conscious of how it all comes about, because instead of having rules made for him, it is essential that he make his own. I do not want to make it appear that the American athlete has no idea of why he is training. But thew are relived of the responsibility...
...rule has ceased to hold. Gaunt, dynamic Chancellor Neville Chamberlain has every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to resign during his two terms as Prime Minister (1923-24 and 1924-29). Today beloved Stanley Baldwin lives in No. 11 with the determined woman who would never let him resign, good Mrs. Lucy Baldwin whose archaic hats...
...suggestions that the Government's acts exceeded last week even the broad powers conferred on Chancellor Hitler by President von Hindenburg's Decree for the Protection of the People and the State, Dr. Goebbels snorted: "A government conscious of its own responsibility must also know how to break the fetters...