Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instinct, Juan Perón immediately turned the demonstration into anti-U.S. propaganda. After two days in jail, the offenders were brought into the office of Minister of Interior Angel Borlenghi, where they were told that, except for one Máximo Guillermo Mantel, they would all be freed through presidential mercy. A search of Mantel's house, said Borlenghi, had turned up a diary with an entry under July 4 which read: "Independence day of the United States. The most glorious of all days. Our big sister." Thundered Borlenghi: "This proves that this episode was directed from...
...letter to a British friend, one day in 1934, Poet Ezra Pound was in a complaining mood: the world had all but lost contact with the classics, and it was high time someone did something about it. What was needed, said Pound, was a whole new series of translations, freed of the false and stilted elegance of those then in print. "The border line between 'gee whiz' and Milton's tumified* dialect must exist," Pound wrote. Why didn't his friend try to find...
...Mental patients who hear "voices" may actually be listening to their own subconscious ideas, which are made audible to them because part of the brain does not work right. Neurologist Walter Freeman and Surgeon Jonathan Williams tried cutting out this part (the amygdaloid nucleus). They found that the surgery freed four patients of "spirit voices." ¶Schizophrenia is 13 times more common among the poor and uneducated than among the educated rich, a Yale team reported. One reason suggested: more "marital and family instability" at lower social and income levels. ¶ Cases of arrested emotional development with lifelong dependence...
...Cohen considers that his own psychology is now sound again. "Writing the thesis was a catharsis for me," he says. "I'm freed of my troubles." He has remarried, has a baby daughter, and is practicing in Arnhem...
Conditioned Reflex. In Melbourne, Australia, Thomas Joseph O'Shea was freed on a charge of insulting a policeman after he told the judge that his cough, and not the passing cop, had made him stick out his tongue...