Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expired and Lewis and the operators were hopelessly deadlocked, a shutdown was averted at the last minute. Both sides agreed to a War Labor Board order to continue under the old contract, with Lewis insisting on a 30-day limitation. The burly U.M.W. boss piously told WLB that, "conscious of the imperative necessity of continuing the production of coal for war," he would accept the order...
...since the days of the great Marshal Lyautey had Frenchmen been so conscious of empire. The consciousness arose from the persistent (and unduly alarming) rumors that France would be asked to put some of her strategic overseas bases under international "trusteeship." To the Consultative Assembly hurried Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to defend his country's colonial record, challenge its critics, and proclaim a new deal for an empire second only to Britain...
...professionally light-hearted New Yorker, which last week made this admission, has fallen more & more often in recent weeks into an uneasy, self-conscious mood. The New Yorker has not been alone. A wartime schizophrenia has touched all U.S. magazines trading in fiction and frills. And last week, in the April Harper's, Poet-Anthologist Oscar Williams culled from his correspondence with poets a summary of the wartime writer's dilemma-"a kind of Gallup poll of the soul." No writer was particularly happy in his work. Samples of unease...
...unique record library, which will eventually be filed in the Army Medical Library in Washington, may be helpful in teaching psychiatry. Hitherto a student psychiatrist's acquaintance with his chief technique, the psychiatric interview, has had to be at second hand-an observer makes the patient too self-conscious to talk freely. The recording machine, says Dr. Rosner, bothers his patients...
...Senator, World War I hero, holdout against Fascism (in 1943 he was rumored plotting with Marshal Badoglio to oust Mussolini); after long illness; in Finale Marina, Italy. When Italy teetered toward war in 1940, he gave Il Duce some sound, unheeded advice: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary...