Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They are cold and without passion . . . and . . . they endure the company of their lovers for whole hours without being sufficiently moved to change their expression. . . . [They] give themselves up at an early age to the enjoyment of themselves...
...pursued since he was a boy, and he had lifted the museums' rarities to add to his own collection of 40,000 butterflies. The judge let him off easy (a ?100 fine); he understood "the distraction of your mind" that had led Wyatt to a crime of passion...
...Spiritual Murder-It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart's choice...
...this month, the man who played Christ will be tried by a denazification court. But whether or not he is cleared, the little Bavarian town of Oberammergau (pop. 3,944) will probably need a new Jesus. By 1950, greying Alois Lang will be 59 and too old for his Passion Play ordeal of carrying a 100-lb. cross and hanging from it in make-believe crucifixion for 22 muscle-tearing minutes...
Thus far, observations during eclipses have confirmed Einstein. But the exact amount that a star's light bends has varied from eclipse to eclipse because of changes in the density of the upper atmosphere. This year, the scientists, with their passion for precision, will study the atmosphere right up to its top, with airplanes and radiosonde balloons...