Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style-conscious Air Force, which has introduced to U.S. military, fashions such items as lapels on the blouse (replacing World War I's choker collar), slacks (replacing boots, spurs and breeches) and the "50-mission" cap, last week moved on once more...
...shielded street-sweeping machines (not yet devised) will brush the contaminated asphalt. Heavy rain (if rain falls) will carry some of the deadly dust down the rivers to the sea. At last the interdict will be raised, and people can go about their ordinary business, avoiding dangerous areas and conscious that even in the safer places they are still receiving a considerable input...
...Populars were a mass party of planners and share-the-wealthers, founded a generation before by the Gracchi. The Optimates were a conservative elite of class-conscious constitutionalists. Marius was a leader of the Populars, and in 88 B.C. the Optimates, under the generalship of Sulla, ran him out of town and nailed the heads of his leading followers up in the Forum. Later Sulla was to spare young Julius, but warned, "One day this man may destroy the cause that you and I uphold. For this Caesar is worth six of Marius." Caesar went off to soldier in Asia...
...Center's most technical work involves a study of Yoga and its direct connection to altruism. In one report, purusha, the pure divine energy of the Yoga system is defined chiefly as Love, in addition to knowledge and existence. The Yogi, whose basic exercise involves conscious and deliberate control over breathing, participates in the universality of Love by submerging his personality elements (body, emotions, habitual process of thought, etc.) In everyday life, the Yogi learn to abide by the law of Love through certain yamas (abstinences...
...However, those California bathing-suit manufacturers have reached a low with a gimmick "evening convertible" (swimsuits that can be transformed to evening dresses). The thought of dressing for evening in something I had worn bathing a few hours before, or even a week before, sends chills down my fashion-conscious spine...