Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memorize Hood's The Song of the Shirt for school. After repeating it aloud patiently as his son fell asleep, Sherover was delighted next day to hear the boy babble the poem without a slip. Thus Sherover confirmed what many psychologists had long believed: a dozing person is often more receptive to suggestion than, a wide-awake...
...Recesses. When they awakened, all the guinea pigs listened to the list. Those who had heard it in their sleep learned it by heart in practically no time. Those who had never heard it took much longer. Elliott concluded that sleep-teaching is similar to reteaching something a person has temporarily forgotten...
...operation. Because she was tired, nervous and rundown, her doctor put her in the hospital three days early. She had time to rest up; the hospital staff had time to make blood tests, check her heart, get acquainted with her mental and physical state, know her as both person and patient. Mrs. Doe came out of the anesthetic with no nausea; after a day's rest she was sitting up. After two days she began to walk; in a week she was home. Her scar was a thing of surgical beauty...
...Jeremiah Stokes, 70, Mormon elder; each for the second time; in Chicago. Anti-Semitic Mrs. Dilling made her first big noise in 1934 with her finger-pointing book, The Red Network (among the "Reds" she discovered: William Allen White, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Eleanor Roosevelt), more recently starred in person as a defendant in the noisy 1944 Sedition Trial fiasco...
...Long Holiday is his first-person story of 56 months spent in seven forced-labor and concentration camps, 118 days of that time in solitary confinement. In France, the book won the first Goncourt prize to be awarded in six years, sold over 200,000 copies within a year. No literary achievement, it is a thoughtful and simple account of man's courage and man's weakness under demoralizing brutality...