Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young hero, who has somewhere picked up an accent that is neither Canadian, cockney, nor English, is opposed by his foster-father's sister (Catherine Willard), a "congenital virgin," and is not very elaborately received by the object of his attentions, either: she has "acquired her virginity," but she naturally has a change of heart before the final curtain...
...First, the fundamental object of our national revolution ... is ... the establishment of a new China based on the Three People's Principles...
...giving the opposition every chance for a fair campaign. At week's end the Cabinet legalized the four opposition parties, promised free elections. Expected in Sofia soon from Moscow was another, better known Georgi Dimitroff, famed Communist international operative and onetime secretary of the former Communist International. Object of his mission: to organize the new Fatherland Front campaign. He would himself head the Communist slate...
...peek inside the temple will have a hard time; the services are conducted in a formidable lingo, which puts new meanings to such familiar words as sublimation, transference and catharsis, and uses such arcane runes as abalienation and stereotypy. Sample liturgical phrase: "narcissistic identification as a preliminary stage to object cathexis" (which means that a person is drawn to other people because they remind him of himself...
...closing down the Inches may not be so easy. If keeping the lines open means cheaper oil through lower transportation costs, East Coast oil users will object to any such proposal. Reconstruction Finance Corp. contends that Big Inch should continue to operate, but in private hands. It is now getting its figures together to try to prove its point...