Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Such is the force of character that Queen Salote made us as conscious of Tonga as Columbus made the Caribs conscious of Spain. Everyone now wants to know something more...
Help Wanted. That Mickey is now playing for New York is due partly to good Yankee organization, partly to good Yankee luck. Always conscious of the 67,000 seats in their Bronx ballpark, and of the fact that even their stars seldom shine for more than a dozen years, the New York club owners could well hang over Yankee Stadium the sign: HELP WANTED. In the late '40s they were sending the word down through their scouting and farmclub network (today: some 30 scouts, ten farm clubs) to find a new crop of infielders, outfielders, pitchers and catchers...
...truce prospect brightened once again, the U.S. grew more conscious of a basic question about the Korean situation: Under present conditions, is truce on the same side as right? It is a question which a peace-minded nation faces reluctantly. Yet it was an inevitable question once the U.S. entered a war for a moral principle and then permitted its will-to-win to be hobbled by hesitation on the battlefield and by the pressures of domestic and international politics...
...then . . . down to the region of her navel-'It comes from my tummy.' " This patient also had an idea that she had been an unwanted child, and described two burning sensations when she believed that her mother had been trying to cause an abortion. Despite her conscious ignorance of biology, she told in detail of having been "just a tiny spot," then beginning to grow bigger. From the patient's mother, Dr. Kelsey learned that she had indeed been unwanted, and had been almost strangled at birth by the umbilical cord. "Not surprisingly, [the mother denied...
Hager, no conscious spoilsport, bases his argument on elaborate geological studies of the crater's surroundings. Except for the presence of meteoritic material, he says, there is little or no evidence to prove that the mound or the depression in its center is of meteoric origin. One of his strongest points is that the sides of the mound are made largely of white sand arranged in regular beds. This seems to point to the slow action of normal erosion, not to the sudden impact of a meteorite hitting the earth. Another strong point is that no large mass...