Word: occurence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bright Future. Why did the wave occur? "I don't know why," said Humphrey. "It isn't local, attributable to any one newspaper or anything of that kind. I have been trying to think what it is. I just wonder if perhaps it isn't because this Eisenhower Administration has done such a tremendously successful job on the big things-on the things that got him elected. Each of us is thinking of some of the more minor things that we would like to have handled just the way we would have done, and one after another...
Judging by these somewhat frantic goings-on, an observer would think that a major catastrophe was about to occur. Asian flu, however, need not be a disaster at all. Scientifically, its symptoms are runny noses, back and head aches, sneezing and muscular pains. A Harvard medical official described it a little more poetically, as "a feeling that the world has left you behind...
Special Conditions. The dilemma that must be resolved before any genuine progress towards Christian unity can occur was pinpointed best by Theologian Lewis Seymour Mudge, a Presbyterian, writing in the Christian Century: "Our problem no longer centers on the 'divinity of Christ' [but on] the humanity of Christ. Christ became man and died for all men. We know that this is so, but our theologies and our church structures make it appear that he died for only some men or for a curiously fragmented sort of man . . . We are able to say no more than that God became...
...opposite sex, and all socially unacceptable forms of overt behavior such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, transvestism, homosexuality and bestiality. To understand the origin of these disorders, the two psychiatrists say, "the physician must face a disquieting but demonstrable fact: examples of all degrees of parental seduction of the child occur more commonly than it is comfortable to contemplate . . . The seduction may be as subtle as a caress or as blatant as actual incest...
...whether a mother's close inspection of the genitals is an honest, brief, physical necessity or an anxious, seductive maneuver . . . Sleeping with children of the opposite sex is prolonged into the teen-age period. The mother may still continue to lie with the son, despite awareness that erections occur." Beyond this is a wide range of openly seductive behavior, from varying degrees of physical intimacy to incest...