Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limousines, death notices in two Denver dailies and even a motorcycle escort. Those who want a more stylish send-off can choose a top-of-the-line bronze casket for $3,682.25, much cheaper than the private equivalent sold for $8,900. For the truly cost conscious there is also a no-frills, Boot Hill model-a stark pine box covered with gray cloth...
Late one night, after finishing your article on ice cream, I forgot calories, triglycerides and cholesterol. I had to have ice cream, preferably mocha-nut or rum-raisin marshmallow-nut. What had my sensible, nutrition-conscious wife stored in the freezer? Frozen, uncoated, vanilla yogurt bars...
...down day at the Hotel New Hampshire, getting ready for New Year's Eve: I remember that something more pronounced than even the usual weave of silliness and sadness seemed to hang over us all, as if we'd be conscious, from time to time, of hardly mourning for Iowa Bob at all-and conscious, at other times, that our most necessary responsibility (not just in spite of but because Iowa Bob) was to have fun. It was perhaps our first test of a dictum passed down to my father from old Iowa Bob himself...
Actually, there is no good reason for the Executive Branch of Government to be any more self-conscious about taking time off than either of the other two branches. The Supreme Court manages to flee Washington for the entire summer every year without a writ of apology, and Congress, as usual, has scattered until September. All this exiting has had a refreshing effect on life in the capital city, if not on its weather. Traffic flows; restaurants offer a table. The first drafts for all proposed budgets for FY 1983 are due at the Office of Management and Budget...
...bypass surgery performed last May after the attempt on his life. With a reticence typical of reports on the Pope's progress, Vatican spokesmen waited half an hour to inform the public about the operation. By the time Gemelli issued the hopeful medical bulletin, John Paul was already conscious and smiling as hospital staff members wheeled him back to his suite. He will still have to spend at least ten days in Gemelli and a longer period of convalescence at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo before resuming his duties at the Vatican...