Word: delusionals
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"The family, the church, the medical profession, the government, private business-each has something to do with meeting the needs of citizens, young and old," said Bestor. "The idea that the school must undertake to meet every need that some other agency is failing to meet is a preposterous delusion...
The Prioress' Revenge. Yet it was Sister Jeanne, prioress of the Ursulines, who brought the long delusion of Grandier to an end. In Huxley's interpretation, her native hysteria was aggravated by the abnegations of convent life; she began to have daydreams, and later night sweats, about the...
Within a space of days, old (74) Alben Barkley was swept into such riptides of excitement, wild hopes and shattering delusion as few men ever know in a lifetime. On the very eve of the convention he heard heart-lifting news: the Administration, fearful that Stevenson could not be drafted...
Some fell prey to a great, dull hopelessness. In Manhattan, where it often takes 15 minutes to go a block through trucks, cabs and darting pushcarts, a taxi driver said: "We're beat. We got expressions just like people in Europe. It used to be you could get into...
"But by throwing himself into what is a partisanship ... he is inevitably regarded as sharing the atheism on which Communism is based . . . By that inevitable influence, he blurs the Christian witness against atheism, and shocks those who know the suffering and persecutions which Christians have had to bear at the...