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Peacefulizing the Mind. Stay Alive is not so much written as it is traced from Positive Thinking's phenomenally successful pages. Author Peale issues some categorical imperatives, e.g., "Love your job," "Have a spiritual operation on yourself and get all moral fester removed." The Peale disciple's day begins with mental pushups: 'This is going to be a fine day. I had a splendid night's sleep. I am glad that I am alive. First. I shall enjoy a good breakfast. Then I will have some happy fellowship with my loved ones before...
...determined use of power, the slaughter was finally checked. Nehru could at last turn his attention to other problems. He and his government forced through laws forbidding social and religious discrimination against untouchables. They incorporated into free India 552 princely states which the British had allowed to fester in medi eval autonomy. They held free elections-the world's largest-and by a mixture of force and political guile staved off Communist Party bids to win control of provincial governments...
...Presidential Assistant Anderson should enjoy his new job. In I and Claudie one hobo says, "There is hardly anything that is not in my line . . . It is only when [a man] does the same thing over and over that his talents begin to wither and his spirits to fester up." The NSC's span of global problems is not likely to fester a man's spirits...
...talking to himself can get a lot off his chest that might otherwise fester there. Not that the late Harold Le Claire Ickes was shy about clearing his chest in public. But to his diary, crusty Politician...
...LIEUT. FRANCIS A. STRIEBY of Okonoko, W.Va.: "Interrogated for ten days while in handcuffs ... He refused to yield and was taken to Mukden . . . There his legs were shackled with chains, the chains kicked into his shins by guards and the wounds in his shins left to fester with no medical aid. Three separate times he was dragged about the floor, kicked in the legs and back and almost lifted from the floor by his hair and ears. Once in an effort to open his clasped hands five guards pinned him to his cell wall, hit him repeatedly in the body...