Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME asks: "Under present conditions is truce on the same side as right?" Obviously, to all those conscious of the legacy of Valley Forge, the answer must be no ... For Americans of the Valley Forge heritage . . . it would seem to me that the promulgation of the current truce terms without so much as consulting the most valiant contenders for world freedom in the world today is a blot on the escutcheon of moral America from which it indeed may never recover...
...Martin was as much of an ingrained conservative on taxes as Dan Reed. Also, as Speaker of the House, he was keenly aware that Dan Reed's Ways & Means Committee was the traditionally unchallenged source of all revenue bills. Like all House Speakers, Martin was deeply conscious that his very authority depended on parliamentary precedent and the power of his committee chairmen. He could have ducked the whole EPT issue. But in recent months Joe Martin has discovered a higher loyalty to Dwight Eisenhower, and in that loyalty has developed a sense of leadership which his colleagues had never...
...wilderness livened the idea of Divine Providence. Old rights, old truths became more precious in a new land. The rebellious colonists sought and found freedoms and powers their ancestors never had; to that extent the American spirit was and remains progressive. But the rebellious colonists were as conscious of traditional rights to be preserved as of new rights to be won; to that extent the Spirit of '76 was profoundly conservative.*The American genius cannot be understood either as progressive or conservative. It lies in the tension between the two, and the tension does not exist mainly in clashing...
...live above 22,000 ft. His heart dilates and beats faster, he has no desire to eat. The thin air leaves him gasping, the cold that numbs his limbs fills his throat with lumps of mucus. Worst, it can sap his courage so that every step forward demands a conscious effort of will to jog the body...
Conservatism as a fact and a force never died, and it is now vigorous and growing. But as a conscious and proudly defended outlook on public affairs, as a philosophy of life and government, it was driven underground for a hundred years, laughed out of the schools, driven like an old hag in a gunnysack from the glittering and shifting fashion show of ideas...