Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio voice of Pierre Mendès-France rang out across France. "I am conscious as I tackle this question that it touches the deepest chords in our national feeling. Not only does it divide Frenchmen among themselves, but it tears each one within himself...
Both politics and mountain climbing seemed unlikely pursuits for a man like De Gasperi. Tall and lanky, he was plagued by bad health. He was an inept organizer, a rambling, self-conscious speaker. He had chilly, blue eyes and a wide mouth that even in repose seemed compressed in grim disapproval. But underneath, De Gasperi had a mountain man's flint-hard resolution and a devout Christian's sense of integrity. These qualities made him the greatest man in postwar Italy and helped him revive a nation that had almost died from an overdose of political bombast...
...same insecurity made the new President extra conscious of the dangers of assassination. He has refused to move into the exposed Presidential House, instead renting a small residence more easily guarded by liberation soldiers. But most Guatemalans see the official residence as a solid symbol of power and expect the Chief Executive to live there. The point might be minor, but the effect, as Castillo Armas rounded out his first fortnight in power, was a certain drop in his prestige...
...live it. For his second one-man show, on exhibition last week at London's Beaux Arts Gallery, Artist Smith produced 15 examples of what he calls life's "acts of heroism." His big, life-size painting of a baby taking its first step beams with self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid Row figures, asleep amid prowling mongrels and a litter of old newspapers on a sidewalk, exhibit a kind of desperate valor. Says Smith...
...roasted her to a charred turn. The story behind the breakfastless children, the experts reported, is that Mom is a slugabed who refuses to get up in time to scramble the eggs and perc the coffee. Furthermore, the survey showed, many teen-age girls are scared by diet-conscious mothers into skipping breakfast. Then, after the breakfastless daughter goes off to school, Mom rises late, stuffs herself and gets fatter day by day. The nutritionists' remedy: less eating, more cooking by mother...