Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychosis (alternating fits of madness and despair), and in a moment of extreme depression he had rushed to the window. But he had not made up his mind to kill himself. In addition to his depression he was suffering from schizophrenia (split personality), and schizophrenics have the power to forget their bodies, to remain for hours in one position, no matter how painful or precarious their plight. Contrasuggestibility (perversity) that also accompanies this disease was aroused by the persistent efforts to get him inside. Finally, his desire to contradict overcame his urge for life...
...American-supported colleges, as the nearest thing to neutral territory in fighting areas, were the only refuge for Chinese women from slaughter and rapine. Teacher Minne Vautrin of Ginling reported the admission of 10,000 young women to Ginling grounds: "Never shall I forget the faces of the young girls as they streamed in. ... They had disguised themselves in every possible way -many had cut their hair, most of them had blackened their faces, many were wearing men's or boys' clothes or those of old women...
...Berlin Boersen-Zeitung am Mittag sportingly editorialized: "We who for many years were proud and happy over Schmeling's victories must now show that we can be fair losers. . . . He may be assured that the Fatherland will never forget his 14 years' record...
Superintendent Alexander Hamilton Bell will never forget the day the first oil spurted into the slush pits from the sand which had been tapped 13,000-odd ft. down. It was necessary to bail mud out of the pipe so that the gas pressure below could push up the oil. "We had swabbed 2,000 ft. of mud," said Superintendent Bell, "when suddenly the fluid rose 1,500 ft. in the hole. So we knew we had something. We swabbed a little more. Then it came naturally. For half an hour mud poured into the sumps, then turned...
...brave proposals come to nothing, but by the time his cabinet, his constituents, a fierce young female Marxist (Ardis Gains), and his family have indicated their more or less reluctant disapproval, audiences have been treated to a symposium so full of sparkling, perfectionist common sense that they may well forget that they have seen nothing closer to physical action than a young agitator's feeble threat to break a window...