Word: leste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...person fails, he feels shame in departing from the path under the eyes of his fellows; when the inner-directed fails, he feels guilt in departing from his own principles; the other-directed, living in hope of the approval of his peers, is seldom free of a diffuse anxiety lest this approval be withheld. Riesman notes that from the walls of the inner-directed school, the ruins of Pompeii and the bust of Caesar often looked down-reminders of the past from which one learned the moral principles of history, part of the gyroscopic mechanism. These pressed stern standards upon...
...continued Egypt's rulers, they dared not take Egypt into a defensive alliance so soon after 72 years of British occupation, lest it seem that they had again surrendered Egypt's hard-won independence. However, after "a period of complete independence, during which mutual trust is built up between Egypt and the Western powers, Egyptians will be able to look without suspicion on any closer ties [with] other powers...
...life as an airraid shelter. Each day they breakfast on oatmeal, toast and bacon, have chicken or steak for lunch and only consent to Japanese dishes at supper. The Emperor's favorite food is persimmons, and he keeps careful track of every persimmon that enters the palace lest someone make away with it. A teetotaler who hates tea, Hirohito cheers himself with lukewarm water when guests are imbibing stronger drink...
...hospital at Warracknabeal, 180 miles from Melbourne in Australia's rich wheatland, nurses kept an extra-sharp eye on Patient John Clancy, lest he sneak out for a bit of pub-crawling with his cronies. White-bearded Farmer Clancy had already given them the slip once, and they wanted him to stay put until the wound from his operation was fully healed. It was only an appendectomy, but what made the case ususual was Clancy's age: 100. So far as the records showed, he was the oldest appendectomy patient in history. Last week...
...delicate: Sir Winston, who will be 80 on Nov. 30, has told intimates recently that he does not expect to live long without the stimulus of supreme responsibility. And so top Tories, though convinced that the time has come when he must retire, are hesitant about importuning him, lest they speed the doughty old hero to his grave...