Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once divorce has been allowed, there will be no sufficient means of keeping it in check within any definite bounds. Great is the force of example; greater still is that of lust. . . .-Pope Leo XIII...
...Reverend Arlan Baillie of Boston criticized General McNair's statement in regard to the proper fighting spirit [TIME, Nov. 23: "We must lust for battle; our object in life must be to kill; we must scheme and plan night and day to kill."]. Reverend Baillie stated that such an attitude was not proper for a leader of fighting men, and wrote to President Roosevelt asking for McNair's removal...
...Lust for Battle. "I found many things wrong but I am never satisfied anyway," said General McNair, at the Tennessee maneuvers 18 months...
...Said General McNair: "We must hate with every fiber . . . We must lust for battle; our object in life must be to kill; we must scheme and plan night and day to kill. There need be no pangs of conscience, for our enemles have lighted the way to faster, surer, crueler killing...
Cutting Connections. Purpose of the operation is to sever most of the nerve connections between the prefrontal lobes and the thalamus. The thalamus is lower, nearer the spinal cord. This part of the brain is widely believed to be the seat of emotions-fear, rage, lust, sorrow, other purely animal instincts. All animals have a thalamus, but the higher animals-above all, man-developed superimposed layers of brain tissue which exercise some control over the thalamus...