Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They [the democracies] forgot to consider the advantage that geographic position gave England in getting control throughout the world while the countries of the world were still small warring states. They have forgotten all this and have been content to sit back in complacent satisfaction and trust that the virtues of their system of government will finally triumph over the menace of barbarianism...
President Eisenhower has never been one to be content with the clarity of immediacy. When he wants to rub a peephole in the steamy window looking out on the nation's future, he concedes that he himself is no expert on the future, and appoints a committee to do the rubbing...
...husband, is a woman as convincingly evoked as Emma Bovary or Molly Bloom. The narrative is a first-person reverie; a stream of consciousness, then a torrent, then a willful, feminine shutting down of thought. Germaine is mirrored in the flow of words as well as in their content. Prose of a different texture would be necessary if she were older, or merely pretty, or a shade less turbulent...
...share my view," and here came roars of approval, "this country ours has to move ahead. We can't permit 50 per cent of our steel capacity to go used." Portraying his opponent as "content" and himself as "not satisfied," Kennedy pointed to falling U.S. prestige and argued that "if our country is strong home, we will be respected abroad...
...Automatic testing machines were employed to determine cholesterol content of blood specimens, a job which these machines, according to Schaeffer, "are not yet capable of performing accurately." ¶ Coagulation tests at one laboratory were conducted on blood samples collected in special tubes supplied to doctors by the lab; the tubes contained oxalate, a chemical agent which prevents coagulation. ¶ For the sake of speed, some labs resorted to "sink tests," simply poured samples down a drain and blandly reported "negative" results to the doctors who had requested analysis...