Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning their search for the Radcliffe freshmen of their dreams in 1947, beauty-conscious Crimeds discovered that Idaho grows more than potatoes...
When this manor--one of the last vestiges of the proud old days--was up for sale, the London papers advertised "A Georgian residence, woodlands and farms, and a good sporting property." The tradition-conscious London Times stiffened its upper lip and noted, "The Sheraton and Chippendale furniture...is now being taken away to the sale rooms...
...Colorado, Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan, author of the direct-subsidy, surplus-building Brannan Plan, discovered that his popularity with parity-conscious wheat growers and other farmers was not enough to offset ex-Representative John A. Carroll's edge in Carroll's home city of Denver, lost the Democratic senatorial nomination to Carroll 60,494 to 62,391. Carroll, defeated in the 1954 Senate race, faces ex-Governor Dan Thornton, 45, ardent Ikeman, in November...
...happened in an essay called "The College Career of Johnny Rock": "When the team journeyed to Boston to play Harvard, John seated his men on stools at the Thorndike Hotel lunch counter. Here the prices were lower than in the dining room with its linen-draped tables and tip-conscious waiters. Another time, when one of the players asked John for a pair of new shoelaces, he had to answer this one: 'What did you do with the pair I gave you last week...
...before his easel, then sit down and write: "These colors give me extraordinary exaltation. I have no thought of fatigue; I shall do another picture this very night, and I shall bring it off. I have a terrible lucidity at moments when nature is so beautiful; I am not conscious of myself any more, and the pictures come to me as in a dream...