Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shock." As if he had not enough troubles of his own, the unwed father has to worry about what the mother thinks of him. If, for example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
...There can be no doubt whatsoever that the present Greek Government and the armed forces are honeycombed with the worst type of collaborators and financial crooks. ... In their determination to crush their opponents in the suburbs of Athens and the dockyards of Salonika and Peiraeus, they have made up their minds that a new war is necessary...
During the early years of his pontificate, Pius XII spent as much time as he could in the Public audiences. He would wave his entourage aside, and let the people throng around him. Once he lost his ring in the crush. Another time, a woman begged him to hear her confession then & there. (The Pope did, in a secluded corner of the room.) But the strain of the war years has told on him. He finds these long public audiences tiring, especially notices the fatigue after hours of gently helping to lift visitors from their knees...
...Since then the Great Hall hodgepodge of ornate tapestries, stained glass windows, portraits, and busts, has withdrawn into brooding silence broken only by an occasional dance or banquet. Students have come to look upon the hall as a den of horror, where they suffer either from the crush of registration or the torture of exams. Only rarely are the riotous days of the past recalled. Mem most recently shuddered from the sedate heights of its 170 foot tower down to the base of its firm foundation when Sally Rand lectured to a Freshman Smoker in 1941 on the subject "What...
...along" in the UN, make unilateral decisions and implement them with force. Next, we should take the offensive, drawing first Latin America and then other nations into our new "World Empire," suppressing communism as we go. At home, Burnham would have us illegalize the Communist Party and crush all its "fronts;" his black and white approach leads him to lump the Federation of Atomic Scientists with "The New Masses" in this category. Communism, he trusts, will die for good when once it is suppressed...