Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just because patients sit in a catatonic-like position does not necessarily mean they are neglected. It may be the outgrowth of their illness - just as a person in pain may double up in agony, so a mentally ill person may take any characteristic pose he chooses...
When a photographer tried to get LaGuardia to pose in a truckload of wheat, he refused, saying: "It'll hurt the wheat." "Won't it?" he asked, turning to Bell. "No," said Bell, "farmers often pack it that way." "How do you know?" LaGuardia demanded. Said Bell: "I'm from Kansas." "Well," LaGuardia decided. "I won't stand in it. It'll look silly." So he didn't stand...
...latter-day Magellan could still be "the first to burst into that silent sea." No atomic-age Hernando Cortés would pose as a god to a modern Montezuma. Geographically, the world had been pretty well raked over. The only sizable blanks remaining were near the Poles, and they were mostly wastes of ice & snow...
College followers found that Coach Bill Barclay had instituted a should attack in his first appearance as a Varsity menior, and the undersized Techmen were able to pose a serious threat to Crimson supremacy only once, when the visitors moved to within five points of the Varsity, trailing 26 to 21 early in the second half...
...newspaper columns tell the story of coming action by Congress which will wreek or completely abolish this system. Whether it be the never-say-die lobbying of the real estate interests or the fact that the Republicans, now in the majority, see no need of keeping a pre-election pose, the continuance of our present rent-control system seems unlikely unless forceful publication is forthcoming in its defense...