Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preparing for the meeting, diplomats last week reviewed the two months of Big Three relations attending the European war's end. As the cohesive element-a common, dangerous enemy-dwindled away, relations obviously worsened. Peace disclosed deep conflicts of purpose and method which in future decades would try the skill of diplomats and the wisdom of statesmen. But many of the last two months' "issues" were mere pinpricks and needle jabs, magnified to dagger thrusts by the tension of the times. Already some of them looked pretty silly...
...alcoholic is sick in his ego." If the ego is weakened in childhood, a neurotic, a hypochondriac, an alcoholic or a drug addict may result. Because of ego weakness, the average alcoholic lacks feelings of independence and power. "In alcohol he has discovered an easy, temporary and always obtainable method of pulling down the shade between himself and the threatening world of cold, hard, painful facts about...
Every Freshman who enters after the inauguration of the core curriculum will be required to take Natural Science for two terms. The course will emphasize "the methods of the broad field of natural science" and will be conducted by a case method similar to that outlined by President Conant in his recent proposal for "science courses for non scientists...
...Department of Agriculture: a method of starting plants indoors under fluorescent light...
...wife looked when he last saw her, he makes a single mistake that punctures his otherwise airtight alibi. Since mystery-hardened cinemaddicts can hardly fail to miss his slip, it becomes much too clear, from there on, how and by whom he is being brought to justice. The method: to make him believe that his wife is still alive, by leaving her perfume fresh in their bedroom, her wedding ring in the parlor safe, etc., etc., until he begins to doubt his sanity and makes his second and final mistake...