Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most common driver's fault in auto mishaps is speed. High horsepower is not necessarily dangerous; it can be a lifesaver in passing another car. But there is little reason for anybody to top 80 m.p.h. Asks George Romney, who has become particularly safety conscious since leaving the American Motors presidency to become Governor of Michigan: "Has the auto industry not neglected safety for style and overemphasized speed and power? It makes drivers feel that they are at Daytona Beach and not on highways." G.M. markets a limited-production Chevelle Z-16 that revs up to 160 m.p.h.; Ford...
...words only echoed opinion in many Western capitals. But they shocked most of the convention's 577 delegates. West Germans, who live in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, are more acutely conscious of Russia's armed presence beyond their borders than most Westerners. And their politicians are apt to blame the Soviet Union for the fact that, 20 years after V-E day, Germany remains divided...
...problem he is trying to solve, not of the mechanics of the operation. When you write, for example, you don't worry about the way the paper was made or how your pen works (unless it runs out of ink). When you make a phone call, you are hardly conscious of the complex path followed by the electrical impulses. Only if the line is busy do you appreciate the vehicle of communication...
...stake and the horror began. Foxe reports one execution in which a woman was forced to set fire to her own father, and others where the wood was green and burned so slowly that the victim, as in the case of Bishop John Hooper, was still conscious: "He was black in the mouth, and his tongue swoln that he could not speak, his lips shrunk to the gums; and he knocked his breast with his hands until one of his arms fell off, what time the fat, water, and blood dropped out at his finger ends." More hideous still...
...genre, the happy go-lucky western. His compulsion to zoom in on open wounds, his close-ups of pock-marked faces, his pointless scrutiny of a knife-thrower accidentally wounding his apprentice: these all seem as far from the film's context as the London slums that socially-conscious Tony Richardson muscled into Tom Jones...