Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other position may represent "emotional involvement"? I offer in evidence Dr. Zipf's letter, using phrases such as "Benedict Arnolds," "despicable type of disloyalty," "educated fool," "copperheads," "hypocritical agitation under cover of the academic gown" (cf. the full text of his letter in the "Herald"). The unreflective emotional content of a verbal communication is often directly proportional to the number of such phrases and adjectives. Any appeal to reason is hindered by their use. This criticism, if valid, applies to Professor McLaughlin's communications as well as to that of Dr. Zipf. Charles H. Taylor, Associate Professor of History...
...serious Premier Paul Reynaud said: "Hitler wants to win the war in two months. If he fails he is lost and he knows it. ... We are perfectly aware of the danger. We know the days, weeks and months coming now will determine the centuries to come. . . . We must not content ourselves with hope and words. Our soldiers are fighting and French blood is flowing. . . . Our lives count for nothing. One thing alone counts: preserve France...
Last week President Disston moseyed through his strikebound plant, chatting with watchmen, smiling at a troupe of young kittens tangled up in the heaps of sawdust. He announced that the firm would content itself with presenting engraved Disston 0-95 Masterpiece saws...
...only 100 members are needed for a quorum. This left the remaining 335 free to take naps, drink mineral water, tell each other lies, go to the ball game. On the seventh day of debate the House anesthetized it by sending it back to a committee pigeonhole. Republicans were content: now they can campaign this year in the country on the basis that the nasty old Democrats have refused to amend the inequities in the law. New Dealers were content: they admit only infinitesimal flaws in the law, think it needs mostly more enforcement. Only Messrs. Cox, Barden & Co. were...
Columbia Broadcasting System's four-man post has heard some 30,000,000 words, now puts a selection of them on a teletype circuit to publishers every day. Princeton University's Listening Centre transcribes the programs it picks up, analyzes them for propaganda content and technique...