Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some reason, the canard persists that should midnight ever strike, the whole place would turn out to be a pumpkin after all. Yet, by any standard, Duke has gone far in its brief 30 years, and perhaps its greatest asset is the fact that it is so fully conscious of how far it has still to go. Slowly but surely, says President Edens, "we are developing an attitude of excellence." Given that ambition, Duke has but one major job to do: not to grow up-which it has done already-but to grow older...
...rebels were a desperate crew: 1) Walter Harold Balben, 38, the leader, a husky, trigger-tense gunman and ex-paratrooper, serving sentences of 35 to 49 years, 2) Teddy Green (né Georgacopolis), 39, a notorious, publicity-conscious escape artist and bank robber (he is a major suspect in the $1,219,000 Brinks' robbery), under sentence of 45-52 years, 3) Joseph ("Red") Flaherty, 32, a handsome, fast-talking rapist and thief (35 to 47 years), and 4) Fritz Swenson, 31, a hulking, taciturn cop-killer and a lifer...
...first arranged for a display of his sponsor's cars in the lobby. When Sam Goldwyn, Oscar Hammerstein II, Josh Logan or Walt Disney are guests on Toast of the Town, Sullivan sees to it that their wives get gift Lincolns. ("That gets a lot of caste-conscious people buying Lincolns...
...explanation for Canadians' behavior toward Tinker and for the American's wounded reaction is that both Canada and the U.S. are suffering from neuroses: the Canadian neurosis is a compulsive desire to be noticed and the American neurosis is a compulsive desire to be liked. Thus, self-conscious Canadians belittle and criticize the U.S. in order to build up their own national ego. And Americans, expecting friendship, are hypersensitive to the needling. Only mutual understanding, MacLennan believes, will resolve the problem: "The Canadian and American national neuroses will continue to howl at one another like a pair...
...outward an "impinged them against the eyelids." He did not know how far they had pulled, or whether the retinas had-been detached (which would have made him permanently blind). "After the sled stopped," he says, "it was a minute or so before anyone came up. I was fully conscious. The someone opened my helmet, but I couldn't see anything. I yelled, 'I can't see.' They took off my helmet, and I tried to stand up, but I was too wobbly. I lifted my eyelids with my fingers, but I couldn...