Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet Room to open the conferences with congressional leaders on his programs for 1958. The 31 conferees got to their feet and gave him a round of applause. After taking his place in his big, straight-backed, black leather Cabinet chair, he explained that he felt well, but was conscious of speaking more slowly after his stroke (no one in the room could detect it) and would therefore talk less than usual. During the rest of the sessions he frequently came and went, leaving Vice President Nixon to preside while he went back to the business at his own desk...
...laundry-bill conscious lass, Stephens has put out a dacron and cotton trenchcoat that is guaranteed washable. It is also wrinkle-resistant. White trench-coats are being shown, too--impractical but awfully attractive...
...viewer's subconscious mind (TIME, Nov. 18). one TV station announced that it has been trying the technique for two months. WTWO in Bangor, Me. superimposes the suggestion "Write W-TWO" once every eleven seconds on certain of its TV shows, in a flash too swift for conscious perception. The station promised to keep FCC posted on the experiment; so far, a spokesman admitted, the results in the station's mail volume have been as subliminal as the message. But the trade weekly Broadcasting found two radio stations that reported success with a similar method: short announcements slipped...
...under the noses of his Red enemies-doughty Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, 77, offered a prayer for Pastor Schmutzler, and told his congregation that, in fact, the church had already defeated the Communists in their campaign to win German youth away from religion: "Our younger generation has a more conscious faith than when we were young. Young people sink themselves in the Bible to strengthen their faith...
Your attention is called to the growing use of sort of, kind of, really, almost, rather, simply, and anyway by those most conscious of what words sound like...