Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large, too heavy and too drooping . . . The skimpy cape is both broadening and shortening. The dark edging makes the dress look like a dressing gown with the sash undone ... All in all, a misguided effort that will not enhance our growing reputation as a fashion-conscious nation...
...year by a native woman. But he was forwarded to the zoo as soon as he was weaned, and his keeper, a lean, wiry fellow named Eddie Robinson, immediately taught him to wrestle, tackle and pass a football on the Lincoln Park lawn. This ended when Bushman was six Conscious of his 160 Ibs., he good-naturedly refused to go back to his cage one day; it took sweating zoo attendants three hours to get him back in stir and they never let him out again...
Part of the controversy came with the job-running the fantastically costly, jerry-built farm-support machinery imposed on the nation by a generation of vote-conscious Congresses. The rest he brought on himself-by proposing to replace the whole shuddering shebang with a new and equally fantastic contraption known as the Brannan Plan...
...America seems to have Communism on the brain. In particular, the Catholics of America seem to have a fixation on this subject." Catholics must be acutely conscious of the Communist danger to the world, says Father Heenan, but: "There is such a thing as crying 'Wolf!' too often...
...term misread their exam schedules and show up in the right place at the wrong time, or vice versa. Most common misreading of the printed schedules seems to be the result of a sort of Freudian censorship, whereby the student replaces "9:15" by "2:15" in his sub-conscious, and never knows the difference...