Word: learns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presence had converted the Philadelphia Warriors from a listless also-ran into a major power headed for championship contention. With his 41 points, he picked off 40 rebounds against Syracuse, and when his opponents left the floor they were full of strange praise: "He has a lot to learn. He plays a stupid game, but what can you do?" "He's lousy on some things, but I guess he'll turn into the greatest." "He's unbelievable...
...between ward and corridor). It is by the patients' own decision that razor blades and pointed knives are not left in accessible places on the ward. Collectively, at least, the patients' internal controls are excellent. Adds Dr. Errichetti: "And every member of the staff has had to learn to control his own insecurity and paranoid feelings...
...There were a lot of things to learn in becoming a House Master and wife. We found that Mozart piped into the living room had a deadening influence. The musicians in the group just listened intently and the others found the atmosphere heavy going. Now we've settled on Bix Beiderick, whom everyone seems to like...
...retina, that has given all three of his brothers faint vision. While playing tag in the framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he fell two stories to the concrete foundation, suffered nothing worse than a fractured and permanently stiffened left elbow. A natural southpaw, he had to learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity at Yale. Despite his damaged arm, he enlisted in the Army in 1918, lying about his age to get in, won a field-artillery commission...
...birth itself, of hunger, of weaning, of not having one's own way. Most humans make adjustments to these painful shocks. Yet many are overwhelmed by them, and so they attempt to turn the pain itself into pleasure, i.e., they become psychic masochists. At the same time, humans learn in the nursery to fear the woman: it is she who takes the nipple out of the infant's mouth, she who disciplines him. Many persons grow up to run away from the fearful mother image, and at the same time unconsciously to court self-damage. The resort...