Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious of his powers, but neve vain or proud." He never entirely cure himself of the drug habit, developed tuberculosis, wrote almost no poetry in his last ten years, weighed only 70 Ibs. when he died. Beyond the knowledge of most men, says Author Connolly, Thompson "knew the meaning of the awful...
...credence had not arrived from Washington, but Chungking waved aside such formalities. In the American Embassy Pat Hurley held his first press conference, told reporters how he had taken part in parleys between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Chinese Communists. It was a strangely unself-conscious tale...
Some innocent U.S. voters may have thought that they elected a President last month. Actually, they did not. The President was not legally elected until this week (on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December). In 48 State capitals, 48 sets of mildly self-conscious electors gathered. They solemnly chose a President of the U.S. for the next four years, then rushed their votes to Washington by registered mail...
Wall Street and Lyrics. The Senate was not really belittling Tom Connally's committee. Most Senators are deeply conscious of their responsibility for keeping an eye on U.S. foreign affairs, and deeply jealous of their prerogative. They were genuinely interested in the men who will run the U.S. State Department for the next few years. And the four new appointees also brought up fascinating side issues. A few Senators thought they detected the busy, ubiquitous hand of Harry Hopkins-and the Senate is never too busy to bombinate about Harry. Few had any criticism of Joseph Grew, a trained...
...Frenchman's Creek," from Daphne du Maurier's novel of the same name, isn't a bad yarn, but Paramount's production is a little too long-winded and self-conscious. Technicolor is brilliantly used, however, and largely compensates for the picture's weaknesses...