Word: selfe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweat of anxiety starting on his brow as he saw, off in the distance, a young fighter pilot climbing into the wild blue yonder with 2,000 h.p. in front of him and a good breakfast under his belt. Sometimes those fighter pilots experienced an exuberant urge for self-expression which could only be satisfied by a thunderous dive on a herd of cows, a pretty girl's house, or on a slow and whalelike commercial airliner...
This week found radio wrestling rather self-consciously with its soul. The tempter was that familiar old devil, John Barleycorn, represented by Schenley Industries, Inc. Schenley had quietly asked if the networks would now be willing to sell time on the air for whisky advertisements...
...parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all; and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the party or parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security...
...club. In effect, the 52-20 club was a kind of caboose on the G.I. gravy train. Under its provisions, every unemployed World War II veteran was entitled to $20 a week until he found a job-for a maximum of 52 weeks. Veterans who were self-employed but found the going skimpy could draw enough to assure themselves an income of $100 a month...
...time, Lindsay was the Master of Oxford's self-consciously cerebral Balliol College. But his students numbered as many underprivileged John Elkins as they did proper Oxonians. Son of a Glasgow preacher, he had long before decided to devote his life to both...