Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this same group has turned upon Nixon as the man who stopped Hiss's triumphal march and helped to vindicate Chambers. If ever there was a flagrant case of the truth's being twisted by knaves (the real Communists and their conscious sympathizers) to set a trap for the thoughtless and the unwary, this is it. You deserve great credit for beginning to clear...
...into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell's jet racer at Arizona's man-made Lake Mead...
Another spectator objected "purely on emotional grounds' to the generalization that one group is less free of bigotry than another. One listener added that many Jews were extremely conscious about others' social and educational backgrounds...
Unfortunately, however, the highly competent performances of the two leading ladies and the psychological possibilities of Anastasia are virtually smothered by the play's strong allegorical themes. The audience is always conscious of the materialist General lurking on stage, and Anastasia must continually spout lines about the glory of the past and the new glory of the future...
...verbal suggestion. I told her she wanted to get over her cough, and that if she cooperated we could help her." Finally, he told the girl that by the time he had counted ten, her eyes would close. On the signal, she closed her eyes but remained conscious...