Word: lusting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passed around among school headmasters for sometime, Plan C has so far failed to rouse enthusiasm from more than a third. They claim that if released from the "anchor" of College Boards, the student's natural lust for leisure might win out. But the advantages to the student would seem to outweigh these objections. Once over with the red-devils of College Boards, he will have one year to break away from the repetition of French verb forms and reach out into the rich literature of the language. His preparation for college might consist, not of learning dates in American...
Imperialism? Nonsense. A cynical sacrifice of ideology to power-lust? More nonsense. Russia was protecting peace by strengthening her own hand and by exposing the "Municheers." She was protecting the liberty of Poland by forestalling an imminent Munich--since the only ultimate aim of such another debacle would be a four-way partition of Russia herself...
...piece of string pushed through a strip of bacon. At night he wrote, by day he hunted for food in the barren city. His sole neighbor, an old lady, lived in the National Gallery. "She heard that it was empty, and wanted to gratify her love of art and lust for possession during the last days that remain to her." She lived on pigeons that fell dead from the Nelson Column, cooking them over a fire of Dutch masterpieces, which she disiked...
...normal .persons took in their stride were sufficient to bowl neurotics over. The foundations of neuroses, Freud discovered, were laid in the sex experiences of early childhood. Upon this astonishing fact, which Freud painstakingly confirmed in hundreds of cases, he built his famous theories of the libido (Latin for lust) and the Oedipus complex...
When the House last week pounced on the Independent Offices bill, carrying $1,668,290,340 as recommended by the Budget Bureau, and from it ripped $21,-797,000 (i%), including $17,392,977 for TVA extension works, the House's lust for economy seemed proved beyond doubt. Only increase voted over Budget proposals was $2,500,000 for FHA's payroll this fiscal year. A significant reduction: salaries of Civil Aeronautics Authority members down to $10,000 from...