Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...males become sex-conscious five hours after emerging from their pupal cases. But Anopheles males are moody. Sometimes the sweetest hum will not excite them. With antennae removed, both Aedes and Anopheles males are nonresponsive. If a female beats her wings at the wrong rate, she hums the wrong pitch, never acquires a mate...
...Conscious Craftsman. The editor of this collection-which the publishers say is the first "comprehensive" Lincoln volume of its kind since 1905-is the University of Arkansas' Roy P. Easier (The Lincoln Legend, etc.). All told, Editor Easier has transcribed, wherever possible from the original sources, some 250 speeches, letters and literary odds & ends. Many of the selections are obvious and familiar (the classic Gettysburg and Second Inaugural addresses, etc.); many are curious, little-known bits-such as Lincoln's grateful testimonial to a corncutter: "Dr. Zachariehas operated on my feet with great success, and considerable addition...
George VI suffered a nasty little dig from the underworld. Style-conscious burglars broke into a London tailor shop where a suit of the King's hung, departed with four choices of their own, but the King's was not among them. The snooted suit: a dark blue lounge model...
...convention, we believe, really defeated the opponents of eventual union without being fully conscious that it was doing so. The commission's plan has by no means been laid on the shelf. It will be studied despite the failure of the convention to recommend that it be studied. It will be laid alongside the [Lambeth] Quadrilateral* with a challenge to its opponents to point out wherein it diverges from or fails to safeguard the essentials which that instrument sets forth...
...would offer a third alternative . . . the possibility of sanity . . . in a community of exiles and refugees.*... Economics would be decentralist and Henry-Georgian, politics Kropotkinesque and cooperative. Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they had been made for man. . . . Religion would be the conscious and intelligent pursuit of man's Final End . . . the transcendent Godhead...