Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American people had had enough, and the House knew it. Labor's spring strike fever had given the nation a new fit of chills. The House, even more constituent-conscious than labor-shy, reacted with a stunning strike-curb bill, then clinched its purpose by passing the measure by a stunning majority-308 to 107-plenty of votes to override a presidential veto. With the 215 Republicans, 93 Democrats broke ranks to vote for the bill...
Next day cigar-smoking (and snuff-sniffing) Winston Churchill burned a rag under Laborite noses. Said he, in a London speech: "Our country is being driven to ruin and our Empire is scattered and squandered. Everyone is conscious of the approaching crisis in our financial and economic affairs. The Socialist Government is living on an American dole, and squandering it with profligate rapidity...
...Cambridge activities and the Yale Freshman baseball game did not seem so popular, drawing the affirmatives of only one in five, but expense-conscious Yardlings voted almost unanimously for cut-rate corsages...
Said the committee: "We who write this report are members of religious bodies to which we owe allegiance by conviction. For us, the democratic faith . . . rests on a religious conception of human destiny. . . . [We] believe that the American people are deeply, though not always articulately, conscious of a religious heritage to whose central values they want their children to be committed...
...physics, with some mathematics a very handy adjunct, the field is not just a pleasant four-year exposure to a liberal education in the sciences. The vast majority of men in the department, most of them pre-medical students, are playing for keeps, since medical schools are notoriously grade-conscious...