Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conquer oneself, to curb anger, to spare the vanquished, to raise the fallen enemy-a man who does this I shall not compare with the greatest of men, but will deem as most like...
...present, they show that blood vessels were ruptured by the rope and the person was alive when hanged. Suicide by shooting also has a characteristic pattern: a suicide usually shoots himself in the temple, often misses the first two or three times (technically known as "hesitation shots"). Shooting oneself in the head is not the quickest or surest suicide method. Shooters often live for hours or days after hitting themselves. It is very difficult to shoot oneself in the heart (the bullet usually ricochets off the breastbone or a rib). Oddly, suicides never seem to shoot themselves through their clothes...
...thundered one critic, ". . . that word is demonical. [Gide is] a soul of appalling lucidity whose whole art is to corrupt." Retorted Gide: "I was persuaded that each human being . . . had a role to play on this earth, his only, that resembled none other; so that any attempt to surrender oneself to a common rule seemed to my eyes as treason ... to be likened to that great sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no forgiveness...
Unlike Europeans, says Cohn, only four alternatives present themselves to an American couple whose marriage has run into obstacles: 1) "going home to Mamma," 2) "getting a divorce," 3) "getting tight," 4) "draping oneself on a psychoanalytical couch." Shocked by the trials of marriage, men &. women have turned for help to scientists and doctors. Sample findings...
...year at the Dalton School was the most successful; the Dalton feeling is that one should express oneself. Diana...