Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great document may be interpreted to mean something favorable to some special interest or to the general interest. With our new semantic awareness, we have become conscious that a man who says he's "a liberal" is not necessarily one in his actions. We are becoming conscious of the notion that "freedom" is not a thing abstract and absolute, but a word that has many actual uses...
World War II made most Americans conscious that the arsenal of democracy has a strategic roof (Canada) and ground floor (Latin America). Postwar developments have made them acutely conscious that the roof is a convenient avenue of entry for burglars and that ideological con men have already moved in among the respectable residents on the first floor...
Plans & Turbines. An even more curious delegation (composed of U.S. military men, engineers and New Dealers) was also in Buenos Aires last week. Led by earnest, social-conscious Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A., retired, and onetime deputy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, the first 13 experts of the newly formed Inter-American Construction Corp. were already consulting with Peron's five-year planners. Their purpose: 1) to sell Argentina U.S. technical know-how for the plan's 69 hydroelectric projects, port, canal and irrigation works; 2) to sell for U.S. manufacturers $2 billion worth of turbines...
...cruel and wasteful rulers who have driven a great people from one military ordeal to another throughout the course of centuries in order to assure the security of their own oppressive regimes. No one is more aware of this than the Soviet leaders themselves; and no one is more conscious than they of the terrible responsibility they bear to the doctrine of Marxism for the acts they have perpetrated in its name...
From its sizable British market, Hollywood got another rebuff last week. Said Sir Stafford Cripps, president of the export-conscious Board of Trade: "I am certain there are millions of [British] filmgoers who are anxious to see the best films from other countries. But there are limits to our appetite, both quantity and quality, and we also feel that exchange implies reciprocity." Unless Hollywood exports improve, he warned, Britain may well restrict them by imposing quotas and tariffs...