Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Compulsion. "Any attempt to compel us to accept a miscarriage of justice and a system of discrimination," rasped Israel's shock-haired lawgiver, "will meet with our unflinching opposition." President Eisenhower's first message, said B-G, "placed me under great moral pressure, for I was keenly conscious of the personality and the standing of the writer. And if I was compelled to reply as I did, I did so only under a still stronger compulsion: the pressure of my conscience as a man and a Jew, the pressure of the justice for which my people were fighting...
Looms of Discontent. Dior and his Paris colleagues deal in a perishable commodity-novelty. The result is an obsession with secrecy that makes the trade as security-conscious as a guided-missiles plant, its workings as carefully timed as an amphibious landing. Early last week the dresses ordered by U.S. buyers were actually delivered to them in the U.S., heavily guarded and wrapped against spying. Not until this week will the curtain be lifted to let U.S. women get their first glimpse of the actual dresses, in magazines or newspapers. Working frantically against that deadline, swank stores prepared custom-made...
Author Madison Jones, 31, an assistant professor of English at Alabama Polytechnic, dresses some of his sentences in self-conscious Sunday-best. Images that arrest also often manacle the narrative. But in his bewildered hero bent on restoring a lost Eden, Author Jones has found an apt symbol for the current Southern temper, restive and occasionally violent under edicts which seem to threaten cherished folkways. In a fictional amber as reflective as it is rhetorical, he has fixed the unchanging pathos of social change...
...White's headaches occurred when Eve Black was trying to "come out." It was the Black personality in possession of Eve White's body who had bought those expensive clothes. Eve Black was fully conscious of what Eve White was doing all the time, but Eve White knew nothing of Eve Black-until she came out of a blackout to find her closet full of low-cut dresses, or woke up with a hangover that Eve Black had incurred...
...most ticklish law-enforcement fact in many a big Northern city is that the crime rate among Negroes is far higher than that of any other segment of the population*-and few elected officials want to antagonize vote-conscious Negroes by saying so. None knew this better than the unhappy city fathers of Kansas City, Mo., who, during the first three weeks of 1957, saw the number of armed robberies, burglaries and thefts run 40% beyond the 1956 rate, while four out of five robbery victims reported that the holdup men were Negroes. One day last fortnight, seven Negro businessmen...