Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the churches would dig in and do their job, there would be no need for such trials as the one over which I am now presiding. Perhaps we shall some day give Christianity a tryout...
Sixteen years later I turned up in Tokyo, an itinerant free-lance writer, broke and badly in need of a job. By chance I met a member of the faculty of the University of Tokyo. When my professor-acquaintance heard my name, he asked if I were related to the "great" Doctor Hepburn. I explained the relationship. The next day I was offered a position as "Professor of English Conversation" at the Imperial University . . . Wherever I went in Japan doors were opened wide for me because I was a descendant of the great Doctor...
Little did Cooper know what he was in for. The need to paint nothing in a know-nothing way grew on him day by day. He began getting up at 5 a.m. to start "work" on his pictures (abstractions done in watercolor, brown ink and pasted scraps of paper). To keep his art "automatic," he read the Book of Psalms while his hands did what they pleased. He became a vegetarian ("I don't think I could have worked so long on roast beef") and, what was more important, he found a dealer. Cooper's labors, on exhibition...
...three months in jail), the Pic devoted Page One to stills from the banned movie under the pious headline NOW PARENTS CAN JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES. Last week readers were treated to a leering exclusive, CONFESSIONS OF A FAKE DOCTOR, which the paper printed just to show "the urgent need for [legal] reform...
...result, concluded Dr. Leonard W. Parkhurst, the clinic's medical director, many businessmen "need the advice of psychiatrists to convince them that they must ... be boss of their jobs, not slaves to those jobs." In one group of 63 tested at the clinic, 80% needed medical, surgical or psychiatric treatment. The clinic's time-honored prescription: take it easier...