Word: saneness
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...note on his attempted suicide in 1866: "I put the pistol to my head but wasn't man enough to pull the trigger. Many times I have been sorry I did not succeed, but I was never ashamed of having tried. Suicide is the only really sane thing the young or the old ever do in this life. 'Feeble Jerusalems' never kill themselves; they survive the attempt...
...last week to do a job of head-candling on Missouri's droop-eyed killer, Billy Cook. But their numbers only seemed to cloud the issue at hand-whether Billy, who killed six people in cold blood on a transcontinental murder spree (TIME, Jan. 22), was sane enough to stand trial for his crimes. Three said he was, four said he was not. Confronted with such guidance, Federal Judge Stephen Chandler decided next day that Cook was sane enough to plead guilty but not sane enough to be given a death sentence. He sentenced the killer to serve five...
...crowd Trinity with Harvard undergraduates as well as Back Bay Brahmins. Sherrill's preaching, says Trinity's former senior warden, Alexander Whiteside, is not spellbinding, but "it's pretty damned good. He always gives you something to take home . . . He's the most sensible and sane man I have ever known. When the Russian crisis began to look serious last year, I said to myself: 'There are just two men I want to hear on Russia-Winston Churchill and Henry Sherrill...
Kirkland House's inmates are like their tower, "comfortably sane." Freshmen who want to shine in College activities will probably find K-House frustrating...
...more remarkable to find the College worrying about the problems of students who have decided to enlist. Yet the College thought over these problems and on Monday produced some sound and sane answers. Students who leave for service will get an examless two week breathing period; they will not have to spend those two weeks plugging away at a final. Those who leave after ten weeks of the term will still have a chance to get credit for their courses, with the amount of credit correctly left up to their instructors. There will be refunds on board and lodging payments...