Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Page One, at least, it looked as if Louis Johnson was making fast progress towards unifying the armed forces. But there were plenty of skeptics who asserted that unity was still only headline-deep. Last week as his No. 1 assistant, publicity-conscious Louis Johnson surprised everybody by picking a publicity man: Franklin D. Roosevelt's old press secretary, Stephen T. Early. Congress had newly created the job of Under Secretary of Defense to give Johnson a workhorse general manager. (World Bank President John J. McCloy was offered the job, but turned it down.) Whatever Steve Early might lack...
...Russia is a one-sided affair. He began to rebel against the slow, deliberate sacrifice of Bulgaria's economy to Russia. "He followed a policy which lacked sincerity and friendship toward the U.S.S.R.," said the Communists' bill of particulars against Kostov. "Comrade Kostov was moved by a conscious individualism [toward] unhealthy ambitions...
...South African Broadcasting Corp., a semi-official company under a race-conscious government, banned all recordings of Negro Actor-Singer Paul Robeson...
...Self-conscious because of his youth and size, Winston hired a distinguished-looking man of 70 to go around with him as a front for his deals. Before he was 34 he had bought & sold such famous collections as Empire-Builder Collis P. Huntington's and Mining Tycoon E. J. ("Lucky") Baldwin's. He also learned that gem buying could be tricky. Once he bought $90,000 worth which he later found had been taken from Socialite Mrs. Isaac Emerson, wife of the Bromo-Seltzer king. Winston had to return...
...Empson read it aloud, his Bacchus swept his hearers away with its sonority and music, having an effect that Poet John Crowe Ransom likened to "the blazing beauty of fireworks." But what most impressed them was the detachment with which this prodigious man regarded a notoriously threatened and self-conscious world. The last poem in his new book was a meditation on world culture...