Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau of Internal Revenue hoped would make it easier for clerks to classify returns, will be discontinued after this year. The red and yellow stripes, which reveal whether a person makes less (red) or more (yellow) than $10,000 a year, brought a flood of protests from privacy-conscious taxpayers...
...wealthy fellow traveler. In a pamphlet entitled A Humanist Funeral Service (Horizon Press; $1.00), Lamont paradoxically proposes some comforting last rites for unbelievers. In 1932, Lamont wrote his Columbia Ph.D. thesis on "The Illusion of Immortality," and he still insists that "death is the final end of the individual conscious personality," but he now feels that "rituals concerned with death are a form of art and . . . can serve as a healthy release and purge of tension...
...plunged his gloved finger into it and wiggled his fingertip, so that it tore some of the scar tissue and enlarged the opening in the mitral valve in order to let more blood flow from the left auricle to the left ventricle. Throughout the delicate operation, Edna was conscious. As the incision was being sewed up again, Dr. Artusio told her: "Put your tongue...
...Although conscious. Edna did not feel anything. Five days later, on her way to a good recovery (after years of semi-invalidism and constant fear that her heart might fail completely), she remembered nothing about the operation. And she was politely shocked at the idea that she had stuck out her tongue at anybody...
...longer a self conscious cub, but a swiftly-maturing Bear, Brown stands proudly in the midst of the more imposing Ivy group colleges. Gone are the high squeals of protest against accusations of inferiority. In their place have come the benign rumble of individuality.Noon class break on the Old Campus...