Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literacy program (TIME, June 28, 1943); International Business Machines' Chairman Thomas ("Think") Watson; Manhattan's Rev. Norman Vincent Peale; Minnesota's Congressman Walter H. Judd, who was once a physician-missionary himself. Pastor Burkhart, who has made a name for himself in Columbus as a socially conscious clergyman (TIME, Aug. n, 1947). was elected president. The purpose of the organization, as he sees it: to recruit enough money and personnel in the U.S. for an intensive five-year program of practical aid, on a "village level," in areas that suffer from material want...
Land of Surprise. Black Africa's awakening is spotty and inconclusive-more a blind, biological ferment than a self-conscious surge of nationalism. Africa is still a land of weirdness and surprise: of seven-foot giants like the Watussi, the world's champion high jumpers; dwarf antelopes no bigger than a terrier, and goliath beetles the size of a dove; Pygmy hunters with humplike buttocks, and the society of Leopardmen, whose ferocious devotees riutilate their victims with tiny knives that leave marks like a leopard's claws. Across Africa's unplowed ranges roam herds...
...Cabinet met for the first time on Friday, and its two-hour session from a news viewpoint was remarkable for one reason: not even the most headline-conscious Cabinet member dared violate Ike's no-leak edict to tell what had happened...
...resident of Pittsburgh, once again made news of sorts. At a benefit ball for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he teamed with Mrs. Kenneth Johnstone, the wife of a friend, to win the Viennese waltz contest. Result: a picture of a heavily robed, crowned and painfully self-conscious dance king...
Babe stalks the fairway with a conscious sense of theater. She flips king-size cigarettes into the air and catches them nonchalantly in her mouth, then lights her match with her fingernail. Her hawkish, sun-toughened face is frozen for the most part in a thin-lipped mask, but she knows when to let go a wisecrack. When one of her tremendous drives sails out of bounds, she turns to the crowd and explains, "I hit it straight but it went crooked...