Word: inventing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emphasizing that "we are not in our present position by accident," Kissinger proceeded to examine the characteristics of American foreign policy. He insisted that the United States places its hopes in diplomats who can "invent clever solutions to solve crises...
Slim, attractive, fortyish Denise Duval, who once sang (fully clothed) at the Folies-Bergere, repeated the triumph she scored in the opera's debut early this month in Paris. Says Singer Duval: "This is a true role. I don't have to invent attitudes. It's happened...
...classic case of overidentification. Teachers sometimes still have trouble convincing moppets that Ameche did not invent the telephone; World War II G.I.s referred to the phone as "the Ameche...
...lights of modern determinist psychology, for instance, there is scarcely anything startling in this statement: "Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature. [The human race] did not invent itself, and it had nothing to do with the planning of its weak and foolish character...
...address to the Social Relations Society, Bauer stated that this concern has its roots in "the perpetual hope and horror that man will invent means of controlling and manipulating man." Even in the thirties psychologists and psychiatrists were taking the place of witches and devils in demonology...