Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program generally seems to be meeting with more success than the Peace Corps," Miss Leibhafsky commented. "Our people are making a more conscious effort to overcome the Negro's natural sense of inferiority to the white man," she said. "Peace Corps members live far above the subsistence level--usually in white parts of town. Except in the capital our people live in the Negro sections of towns...
...this privacy was taken very seriously by others. "I definitely think that it's wrong to take something like this and make us feel self-conscious about it," said one girl. "If you feel like eating compulsively you should just go ahead and eat compulsively." Later she called such discussion "rather cruel...
...Munster, Assistant Director of the University Health Services, declared that "anybody who uses drugs, be they marijuana, LSD, mescaline or heroin, has some deep and recognizable psychological problem." This would be difficult to prove or disprove and, even if it were true, it would not answer any questions about conscious motivation...
However important the desire to escape may be, it seldom provides the principal conscious motivation for using marijuana. Smokers find that "pot" does not merely reduce or remove the negative effects of the outside world, but that it has great positive effects of its own. People get a sense of well-being or happiness when they are "high" that does not have to be seen in contrast to their more depressed sober moments...
...ground that Japan was already defeated and "that our country should avoid shocking world opinion." Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told him of the plans on a visit to Ike's headquarters in 1945. "During his recitation of the relevant facts," writes Ike, "I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings . . . The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost angrily refuting the reasons I gave for my quick conclusions...