Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countryside is still liberally sprinkled with hardy oldtimers who came West in covered wagons, raised log cabins and broke virgin soil, fought with Indians and rode stages into newly opened valleys. Others, still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still...
...would be unfair, however, to accuse Bentley of conscious perversity because his reviews sometimes seem tiringly quarrelsome. he hopes that, "his faults as a critic are real ones, and not assumed for the occasion." Undoubtedly this is so. And undoubtedly these faults help make The Dramatic Event a worthwhile book for anyone interested in the American theatre...
...being seen," said Jung. "What is seen may be, in the case of a single observer, a subjective vision (hallucination). In the case of several or many observers, it may be a collective vision. Such a psychic phenomenon . . . could be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to the present conscious situation: the fear of an apparently insoluble political situation in the world ... At such times eyes turn heavenwards . . . and miraculous forebodings of a threatening or consoling nature appear from on high...
...Dartmouth Coach Tuss McLaughry and quarterback Beagle are conscious of the necessity of throwing, then so is Crimson Coach Lloyd Jordan. All week long he emphasized pass defense in practice. Beagle's favorite target is a 6' 2" end named Dick Flagg, currently 11th in the nation in receiving. Beagle himself rates fifth in passing...
...longtime (1890-1953) member of the Japanese Diet (which called him the "father of Parliaments") and mayor (1903-12) of Tokyo, Internationalist Ozaki sent a thank-you gift of 2,000 trees in 1909 in gratitude for U.S. mediation efforts in the Russo-Japanese War. When an insect-conscious U.S. Agriculture Department burned them, he patiently sent another 3,000 bug-free trees, which still bloom yearly in the capital. A fragile man with a sensitive face, Ozaki was popular enough to be able to defy the Japanese war machine, from his seat in the Diet denounced Nipponese militarism even...