Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since Peter Townsend had first gone to serve his King, the coltish teen-ager in the corridor had grown into a woman fully conscious of her position and proud of its prerogatives. Warmly magnetic when she wants to be, she can stiffen into icy frigidity at any affront to the protocol she feels is her due. Even her best friends call her "Ma'am," and a brash acquaintance who once inquired solicitously after the health "of your father," was instantly frozen with the reply, "I presume you mean His Majesty...
...eliminate the necessity of a choice. The alternatives before Margaret had become hard and clear, and this week she made her painful choice. She announced: "I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend . . . Mindful of the Church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others...
...door at the rear of a toy shop;. There, she said, he showed her into a room swathed in sound-stifling draperies from ceiling to floor, and containing a canopied bed with mirrors set in the top and sides. He offered her champagne. It tasted bitter. "When I became conscious again," she said later, "I didn't have any clothes on, and I was in bed." So was White. Evelyn screamed. "Be quiet," White told her. "It is all over...
...cattle from Texas to Montana. Come Sioux or stampede, jayhawker or dust devil, nothing bothers Clark-except, of course, the fact that he has to act. But like most of his parts, this one requires nothing much but his anxious little smirk. On the other hand, he seems comfortably conscious (as moviegoers will be awkwardly aware) that the winds which howl about his hairdo do not shake the trees in the processed backgrounds; and he arrives in Montana looking as fresh as a 54-year-old daisy can. At that point, Jane spreads her quilt for him again, and even...
...fashioned gouge-as-gouge-can story of business success. An immigrant boy from Ireland, John Horgan has clobbered his way to the top of a chain of supermarkets. Brutal, foulmouthed, yet strangely charming in his roguish, broguish way, he keeps his junior executives underpaid and forever conscious that they must undersell the rival A & P. Horgan's law is that "you never know where bottom is until you probe for it." In one hilariously horrible probing match with Horgan Co., a pudgy little enamelware dealer seems lucky to leave with his ribs, let alone his shirt...