Word: discords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem drivers referred to his clinic by the courts, Psychologist Canty found 100 certifiably insane. 850 feeble-minded and 1,000 who were former inmates of mental hospitals. Of the rest, he said, many are "psychoneurotic and emotionally unstable, impulsive and irresponsible, or daydreamers preoccupied by financial stress, marital discord or sex problems. [Others are] disturbed by inferiority feelings . . . because of small stature, poor clothing, lack of money, or driving a dilapidated...
...administrative function over all of the nation's federal courts. Warren's knowledge of the problems of government and his administrative ability would serve him well in that phase of his work. In addition, his knack for pulling opposing forces together would help to prevent discord on the often-divided court...
...this internal rumbling before dinner caused some pundits to diagnose a new case of discord in the Democratic Party. But observers with good memories settled back to watch the Democrats being just Democrats in a normal, non-election-year performance...
...church," the Cardinal had said, "recognizes the necessity with which rulers in some Catholic countries may be faced of granting-because of grave reasons-a degree of tolerance to the other cults. But tolerance is not a synonym for freedom of propaganda which foments religious discord and alters the secure and unanimous possession of truth and of religious practice in countries such as Italy, Spain and others...
...framed copy of Burt's The Real Victim, a tearful protest against domestic discord, had been hung by Judge Cornelius Harrington just inside his courtroom in the Cook County circuit court. Last week, when a pretty blonde named Lorraine Eliasen, 25, appeared in court with her husband seeking temporary alimony pending trial of her separate-maintenance suit, Judge Harrington thought that the Eliasens looked ripe for the poetic treatment. He called the couple into his chambers, told them what a "beautiful-looking couple" they were and what a "gorgeous-looking boy" little five-year-old Roy was. Says Harrington...