Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ The woman who does not really enjoy housekeeping but persists in "dutiful or neurotic drudgery" and complains to everybody about it. Freudian explanation: she is probably sexually maladjusted, since people should like work, which is a form of sexual satisfaction, besides satisfying an "instinct to master" the environment.
By building up the curative aspects of the charter, the United Nations in time might be able to alter a world environment which, unaltered, would not permit any world organization to function effectively. Said one of the U.S. delegation's hopeful consultants:
The male shape shows a similar trend: U.S. men are growing taller and heavier, have broader shoulders and narrower hips than their grandfathers of the 1890s. Anthropologist Shapiro believes there must be something in the American environment that produces tall men & women; the average U.S. height is now greater than...
Blue Hills of Austria. Everything-backward environment, shabby heredity, dingy ambitions, neurotic sensitivity- prepared Hitler for his future role. But the beginnings of the future scourge of mankind were bucolic, even idyllic. Hitler was born (1889) at Braunau in Austria-Hungary, among the blue foothills of the Tirolean redoubt.
The threat to freedom is worldwide and neverending. Therefore, as a practical matter, if it is proposed to keep the U.S. at peace, it is necessary to have a world environment which will be friendly and not hostile to the existence and development of American freedom. This means that the...