Word: emotionated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons who consider it unseemly to show emotion over human affairs can steam up quickly over fauna and flora. Especially birds. A wartime British movie, The Tawny Pipit (TIME, Oct. 6), pretty well proved that one rural village had almost forgotten the Battle of Britain for a fortnight in its...
¶ Friends of a Fort Worth bookkeeper named George Stephens heard him preach his own funeral oration-from records he had prepared before his death. Stephens' voice was charged with emotion as it began, calm as it concluded: "There will be no burial service." His body was sent to...
You couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the...
The emotional seismographs record letter-writer Travis' tremors over teaching sex in the Oregon schoolrooms. Her theory is that knowledge leads to experimentation [TIME, April 12]. The truth is exactly the opposite . . . Curiosity is a powerful emotion, and . . . knowledge satisfies curiosity, thus greatly reducing the emotional pressures.
Frau Leber's voice trembles with emotion as she concludes: "We were democrats in 1933 . . . Our spirit has stood a test which not every free citizen would have found easy to meet . . . We know that dictatorship can be beaten only by meeting it before it begins. That is why...