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Word: conscious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they did not believe in it themselves, and farce surely requires the talent to be earnestly absurd, rather than merely posturing. Misses Jones and Ferguson seemed a bit too liberal with gestures, but perhaps this was a fault of the direction. The whole performance gives the impression of too conscious movement...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Escurial and Les Precieuses Ridicules | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...milestone in history, a giant step toward the conquest of interplanetary space. But it was also a Communist achievement with serious implications for the West that the Communists themselves made clear. Cold-war propaganda rang in the Russian announcement: "The present generation will witness how the freed and conscious labor of the people of the new socialist society turns even the most daring of man's dreams into a reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Red Moon Over the U.S. | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...Free Speech!" Most Poles seemed to regard the riots as a strictly student affair. Biggest unknown was whether the students' protests would be taken up by Poland's well-organized and politically conscious factory workers, who had been in the forefront of the Poznan rebellion. If they were, Gomulka would find himself in serious trouble. So far, most major factory-workers units refused to sign petitions calling on the students to desist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Riot in Warsaw | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...intensely conscious of her own desirability, and sauntered along as if all the bungalows were filled with rich old men peeking from behind the curtains. Apparently she was convinced that Laurel Avenue was as likely a place as any other for her to be selected for ... a life of well-financed debauchery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kathleen's Cloakroom | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...work program demonstrates the spirit of cooperation that must be maintained in an institution so small and so budget-conscious as Marlboro. The college employs only three persons to do kitchen work and outside jobs on the "campus;" the rest of the necessary work--an assortment of tasks that includes "building a garage," "chopping firewood," and "removing the porch from the girls' dorm"--is handled by the students on Thursday afternoons, set aside for this purpose. The work is entirely on a volunteer basis, but it is pretty clear that everyone willingly does a share...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Frederick W. Byron jr., S | Title: Marlboro College Prepares to Expand | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

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