Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that many Britons, especially belligerent beldames of 70 and up, reacted to the robots with that admirable and tiresome mixture of flippancy, phlegm and self-conscious stoicism that non-Britons find so hard to understand. "Why, the silly things," cracked one old lady last week, "the Germans are throwing darts...
...brain. This is done by inserting a needle beside the lower spine and injecting a local anesthetic (usually procaine, a cocaine substitute) into the nerve channel which serves the uterus. As labor progresses, nerves farther down are blocked and finally the mother, who until then has been fully conscious, may be given a few whiffs of laughing gas (an anesthetic) if she wants...
...first Soviet Ambassador to Canada flew into Edmonton last week. His five-day flight from Moscow reminded air-conscious Canadians that: 1) the Soviet Union is a neighbor second only to the U.S. in importance to Canada; 2) Russia shares with the Dominion control of the globe's strategic northern...
...enemy has been forced to fight on an extended front . . . continually engaged . . . while our regroupment was in progress. . . . Because of the position of the Allied beachhead force, the enemy couldn't know where our next blow would fall. . . . [Allied troops] have been fully conscious of the role they have played...
...selected his facts with an eye singly on victory-"this single and dominant purpose." He did not pretend to tell all the facts; to have done so would have helped the enemy. Instead he chose his words with skill, with British good humor, with the air of an artist conscious of his own performance. Aware that both friend & foe were listening, he said...