Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witness in a breach-of-promise suit against the Republicans, because I was at Kasson that famous day. And I am happy to recall that I did not outbid or even try to match the Republican promises to the farmers." Then Stevenson made the statement that the farm-conscious Minnesotans wanted to hear. Said he: "We must return to the 90% supports which the Republicans thought so well of in 1952, until they decided it was time for a change-after the election ... At the risk of mis understanding and misrepresentation, I will say again and again that restoring...
...Mystery. Heart disease is still medicine's most stubborn mystery. Again and again, the killer has eluded its pursuers. From Pharaonic times until this century, the medical profession took a fatalistic attitude that most heart disease was inevitable. Today, a health-and youth-conscious U.S. wants to believe those doctors who insist that no disease process is natural at any age. The pursuit of the killer is proceeding with greater speed-and hope-than ever...
...especially anxiety about his heart. They also grade the demands of the jobs available, try to fit workers to jobs. Labor unions and industry groups are backing the effort. Some employers shy away because of compensation problems, but the problems have no medical basis: heart cases are more safety-conscious than other workers, likely to be steadier and more reliable. Properly job-graded, they produce as much as their healthier fellows-sometimes more...
...virtues should not obscure the simple truth. But The Call to Honour shows also why his British and U.S. allies found him so hard to get along with and how his personal sense of destiny could sometimes become a nuisance to Churchill and F.D.R., who were as destiny-conscious as the next fellow. Even Harry Truman once threatened to cut De Gaulle off from arms supplies unless he could learn to keep his place in the Allied camp. For De Gaulle seems even now to be obsessed by the idea that his big job was to keep Britain from undermining...
...strenuous effort to forget the Frenchidiom. By not attempting to imitate the French manner, she makes the French-American transition unusually successful. Through here dialogue never degenerates to slang, she uses, with esprit, the most familiar expressions of common talk. Miss Harris is at once winsome and commanding, always conscious of her position in the struggle. The abrupt change in Joan's outlook when she renounces the confession is electrifying...