Word: icebergs
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...Freud did a lot of listening to his patients' troubles before he talked about his theories. Most of the human mind, he announced, is like an iceberg. Just as most of the iceberg is out of sight under water, most of the mind is buried deep in the Unconscious. The mind, Freud said, is divided into three parts...
...talk later with News-Herald Reporter Hal Malone, the Archbishop got down to brass tacks. Said he: "Such demonstrations are accountable for the lust and rape that we read about almost daily . . . You would have to be an iceberg to be in the same room with a semi-nude woman and not be subject to immoral ideas...
...jeep that wallowed through mud from Italy to the Pacific. Pyke first wanted his weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended the need...
...mile trip back from Greenwich Island and Graham Land was; rough and uncomfortable. Polar gales churned the iceberg-haunted seas until the transport Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...
...feel myself a strong conviction that he [Cripps] is leading us down the wrong road, and that at the end of all his efforts and our privations, we shall in a year or two be worse off than we are now. . . . Exports . . . are only that part of the iceberg that glitters above the surface of the ocean...