Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...groups like to set fires, but for different reasons, said the University of Southern California's Psychiatrist Stanley J. Geller. He concentrated on preadolescents (six to eleven), found that his 75 subjects were all boys. (The only female firebug he found was a girl of 14.) "Without fail," said Dr. Geller, "the marital relationship of the parents was unstable or really nonexistent. In 77% of the cases the real fathers were extremely hostile, aggressive men who frequently beat their children. In approximately half the children, enuresis [bedwetting] was an accompanying symptom." The Freudian explanation: "Fire-setting is greatly related...
...audience. The book is brilliant in detail, lit by a woman's sharp eye for gesture and the shape and condition of others' clothes and faces. In between the dilemmas and existentialist mazes, there is a great tragicomic talent at work, and readers who fail to take a pass or two at Murdoch's Minotaur will miss some fine and frenzied...
...Katie Gibbs. Should the necessity arise, we might also (reluctantly) take over the rest of the world. Obviously, to accomplish these grand schemes Free Harvard would require a strong political organization. Fortunately, we have such a long tradition of sheer autocracy under deans and other supernumeraries that we cannot fail to be a powerful state. Luckily the University has not been afflicted with any of this unhealthy milksop Student Council Democracy stuff...
...about to take over. Of late, American foreign policy has almost entirely been concerned with building a defense ring in Europe and Asia. This is an undeniably necessary project, but the probability of holding the Asian line is at most doubtful. Should much of our support in other hemispheres fail, the United States would have to fall back on its Southern neighbors as major allies...
...currently powers Air Force and Navy planes from supersonic Century fighters to B-52 bombers, is one of the big reasons why Douglas' DC-8 and Boeing's 707 transports are sewing up the commercial jet market. Several months ago Fred Rentschler's health began to fail. Last week, at 68, he died at his Boca Raton, Fla. home. Almost until the end, United's Board Chairman kept his hand on the throttle, not wishing to lose a single day. No one understood better the mission of his company and the stakes it played...