Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jews." Morning, noon and groaning night, all conscious attention was turned to the closed doors behind which American immigration authorities worked to speed the screening process for entry into the U.S. They were hampered by the impersonal provisions of the McCarran-Walter Act, which took everything into account but the human heart. Nonetheless, under orders from Washington and by their own compassion, they were straining the law to its utmost to make their nation live up to the refugees' unseeing, unreasoned faith...
...largest democracies are getting together on a Gettysburg farm to chat about setting it right. Between them, certainly, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nehru share more popular support than any other two men in the world, and in their conversations this week the two great leaders are undoubtedly conscious that many of those supporters are laying great odds on the good that can come of the historic meeting...
...woman patient on the operating table at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan's Greenwich Village was almost ready for surgery. Her left breast was bared for the surgeon's knife to remove a benign growth. But the patient had been given no anesthesia, was fully conscious. Beside the surgeon stood Chicago's Dr. William S. Kroger, taking the place of the anesthesiologist. His substitute for anesthesia: hypnosis...
...been one of the notorious problems of the last few centuries. The existence of any belief seems at the moment almost inevitably contingent upon some sort of parochialism, temporal, cultural, or temperamental. But a secondary difficulty, at least among students in Eastern universities, has been the fact that the conscious expression of any belief which is accepted is regarded not as realism but naivete or weakness. The tough anti-systematic skeptics have so poisoned the air in our better educational institutions that credos tend to be considered as a symptom, with all the pejorative connotations of that word...
...skits at all-which are the lifeblood of a revue. Except for Actor Anthony Newley, there is no touch of that special drollery which is the backbone of British humor. And despite a good deal of moody strumming, there is little in the way of tunes. With its self-conscious patternings and posturings, Cranks, at times, less resembles a revue than the rites of some such sect as the Stanislavsky methodists...