Word: saneness
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...approach to racing is basically sane and even serious, but with an upper layer of humor. There was, for instance, the time he sent Rusty Gate out hopelessly for the Saratoga Cup and, instead of riding orders, gave Ted Atkinson a sandwich, a container of milk and a wrist compass, remarking he might be out a long time...
...Shrike (by Joseph Kramm) is a scary blend of theatricalism and truth- a case history of an intelligent man who, having attempted suicide, is brought to the psychiatric ward of a city hospital. Completely sane, he comes up against maddening institutional methods of both procedure and inquiry. And beyond his medical inquisitors, there is the wife he has deserted for another woman. Outwardly all devotion to the man who scorned her, she is viciously determined he shall not walk out of the hospital into any arms but her own. Half-crazed by the hospital's methods of therapy...
...Holy See blew itself out. Although the issue is still sufficient to produce a few decibals from Texas, it has faded from the halls of Congress, from the newspapers, and even from many Protestant pulpits. Now that the furor has subsided, it is possible to detect a few sane arguments here and there...
When possible, the AEC makes a lump-sum contract with the lowest bidder, but often the projects are so new and so uncertain that no sane board of directors will make such a guarantee to deliver results. It follows that many contracts must be "cost plus a fixed fee," in spite of the risk to the taxpayer. Since the contractor does not profit by keeping costs down, he is tempted to permit abuses-from loafing to large-scale inefficiency. In shadowy AEC-land, screened with secrecy and rippling with money, a crooked or careless corporation might find easy pickings...
...suede shoes carefully and showed no sign of emotion. In a frank talk with a county-jail psychiatrist, she observed that she had often longed to strangle one of her own small brothers. The psychiatrist's opinion -that she had responded to an irresistible impulse, but was legally sane-left her unmoved...