Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premier Levi Eshkol was as conscious as anyone of the gravity of the matter as he rose to introduce the government's motion. Pressing logic on the glum Deputies who sat before him, he insisted that formal ties with West Germany would not only amount to a significant defeat for Israel's Arab enemies, but also would strengthen Israel economically and speed the day when it could win associate membership in the Common Market. "This is a struggle between heart and head," declared Eshkol. "Let us say that it is wise-hearted to go ahead with...
...Presidential candidacies and six great-grandchildren behind, Norman Thomas is an exciting man who has lived hard and wants badly to share his life. Though he is conscious of the effects of age, few of his listeners ever are, and a second-grade teacher probably seldom gets the adoring attention he manages to command. Pointing a finger accusingly or tenderly, staring with his soul, he speaks with a voice that could develop only from the harried heckled experience of Socialist Party campaigns from 1928 through 1948. Chuckling he reminisces about the exploits of one after another of his "old friends...
...certain nostalgic confidence. He delights in recalling that his first political nomination, for governor of New York, was achieved without his knowledge. Quick to admit there is an all-new role for the Socialist Party of today, he prefers to see it as an intellectual order which "keeps alive conscious socialism," and he points to Michael Harrington and other social reformers as its potential leaders. The fact that "the working class has become part of the establishment in the United States," Thomas cautions, should not prelude a challenge to the "outrageous distribution of wealth that still exists...
...promised lower food prices, farm machines, low-interest loans "for the welfare of the common man." His enemies tried to shout him down. One morning in 1957, he fought a clanging saber duel atop a Lima airport building with a Congressman who had called him a "demagogue and conscious liar" (both were slightly nicked). A year later, his wife left him for another man. and the scandal rocked Lima. Belaúnde won a legal separation, was awarded custody of their three children-and plunged on with his Ace ion Popular. He published a book pleading for the integration...
...Thomas Aubrey Jr., 46, president of CBS-TV, the weekend promised to be a good one. He had gone to Miami to celebrate Jackie Gleason's 49th birthday, fully aware that his presence was itself a salute to Gleason's TV success. For Jim Aubrey was always conscious of his power...