Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caxton Hall, it said: "We are speaking on this occasion not as members of this or that nation, continent or creed, but as human beings ... The world is full of conflicts, and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between Communism and antiCommunism. Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but we want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings and consider yourselves only as members of a biological species . . . The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might quite possibly...
...alliance with De Gaulle was more natural than might appear. Both men-the devout Catholic De Gaulle, the devout humanist Malraux-were deeply conscious of the need for a new mission for France; both were deeply disillusioned by the powerlessness of the French parliamentarianism which had supinely handed over power to a Pétain, and was now supine before the challenge of liberation. While De Gaulle brooded in the background, Malraux was the most eloquent voice of the Gaullist R.P.F...
...Rath, the man in the gray flannel suit, is a run-of-the-treadmill commuter who knows that his $7,000 post with the genteel Schanenhauser Foundation makes him, his wife and three children no more than glorified peons on their cash-conscious street in Westport, Conn. His wife Betsy is a brunette charmer with pronounced but somewhat whimsical notions of budgetary discipline ("No more homogenized milk . . . We're going to save two cents a quart and shake the bottle ourselves...
...with more people making more money than ever in history, the workingman is much less inclined to idle over a glass of suds. He has too many other things to occupy his leisure hours: auto trips, sports, do-it-yourself hobbies, home improvement. Moreover, motorists are increasingly conscious of the danger in drunken driving. Other reasons for the decline in beer drinking: reducing diets, the fad for low-calorie soft drinks, rising beverage taxes, which have helped to make the poor man's drink expensive...
About 90% of the newcomers pay their own way to their new homeland, but, conscious of her need for human brain and brawn, underpopulated Venezuela spends about $1,000,000 a year recruiting and transporting immigrants and setting them up on farms in the interior. Said a Caracas newspaper: "The republic needs immigrants in abundance to increase our human resources. We ask only that they be men of labor and respectful of our laws...