Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first essential is to get out of one's head the modern and materialistic idea that the object of lying in bed is to sleep ... [it is] to enjoy oneself, and it is no more than a fortunate accident that good sleeping and waking happen to contribute to the main object. . . . Similarly, one's object in designing the . . . bedroom must be not ... to provide a place where . . . one may be able to sleep, but a place where one can enjoy oneself to the full...
...Europe. . . . France is better off than England, and Italy infinitely better off than France. [Even in England] I found it possible to eat well and cheap in London, Canterbury and other English towns. I found a similar situation in Paris. . . . One may go from restaurant to restaurant and glut oneself even in London...
Willingness to kill in defense of one's family, maintained its position of second "favorite" motive, showing that in spite of the psychological pressure on students caused by the war, the instinct to maintain the safety of oneself and one's family remain as the strongest potential actives for killing...
...were iron armrests every two feet along the benches. "How could I distribute myself under them? I tried one leg. Then the other. But when I was under, how could I turn around?" To passersby, George said, "How many clock?" They showed him the time. "Rapidly, if one applies oneself," George reflected, "one speaks the English...
...confine oneself to slurs and not include also the complimentary allusions?" asks Author Roback, assailing such "wrongheadedness." The answer, according to Dr. Roback, is simple: such complimentary allusions are virtually nonexistent...