Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt very much whether the New Testament writers were as subtle or as self-conscious as some commentators would make them appear," writes the Rev. John Bertram Phillips. "They would be, or indeed perhaps are, amazed to learn what meanings are sometimes read back into their simple utterances!" Anglican Phillips' attempt to make these utterances simple to 20th century readers is The New Testament in Modern English (Macmillan; $6), which last week was headed for the bestseller list...
King, still conscious and calm, was rushed to the Harlem Hospital with the letter opener still in his chest, was soon followed by a score or so of well-wishers and Negro leaders. Also present: fleet-footed Governor Averell Harriman, who was campaigning for re-election in the city when he heard the news. Two and a quarter hours after King was taken to the operating room, a surgeon announced that the blade, narrowly missing the critical aorta near the heart, had been removed and that the victim had a good chance for full recovery. But Harlem's leaders...
Thank you for your thought-provoking stories on the Middle East. We should have a Nasser around this black man's hell and white man's paradise to kick out the color-conscious white men, whose only interests seem to be getting good salaries out of this so-called democratic British colony...
Last Instruction. The cops found the house unrobbed and untouched, and no sure clue as to how the housebreaker had come or gone. The Nimers were conscious but in pain. One policeman tried to raise Melvin's head from the kitchen floor; gently, Melvin ordered him not to, and braced his feet against a wall to ease his agony. While being carried to an ambulance on a stretcher, Loujean opened her eyes. Said she to a policeman: "Please feed the baby plain milk. No formula...
...Alarm & Despondency?" With such forthrightness in a tippy-toes, security-conscious situation, the Times within a year zoomed past its only rival, the stodgy, pro-government Cyprus Mail, in circulation and influence. To prove army inefficiency, Foley printed stories on how his reporters had bluffed their way past guards into top-secret areas. When stern former Governor Sir John Harding put out a law giving him the right to suspend any newspaper without cause, Foley sent 150 protest telegrams to editors and such political leaders as Churchill and Attlee. In retaliation, the government fined him for publishing news likely...