Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international law and which is designed to recommend the change of any conditions which might impair those principles or the general welfare or friendly relations among nations. It will be an organization which is dedicated to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; to create conditions of stability and well-being and through international cooperation, to promote higher standards of living and cultural and educational cooperation. It will be an organization which binds the members to treat the administration of non-self-governing peoples as a sacred trust; to protect those peoples...
...Parents often punish children severely for expressing perfectly normal instincts, especially sex. "The child would not be normal were they absent [but] frequently we see in the childhood of the alcoholic the basis for ego weakness in the false and erroneous attitudes fostered by the parent toward even the presence of these feelings." The child must learn that these instincts are not cause for shame or guilt. ¶"If the child has these pontifical parental attitudes held over him with a rigid denial of freedom to question ... or if too early or too consistently he has been dominated by uncompromising...
TIME'S Paris Correspondent Sherry Mangan telephoned the library, was connected: 1) with the chef of the library canteen, who admitted a change of cats but was not sure of the new cat's sex; 2) with the lady manager of the canteen, who refused to become embroiled in politics; 3) with a bull-voiced man who, apparently jealous of the library's dignity, denied that it maintained a cat of any sex. But L'Epoque stuck to its guns, insisted that the cat was a regular government fonctionnaire and that its upkeep allowance...
...doctors throughout the land went instructions and the penicillin mixture with the request that they try single injections of 200,000 units (2 cc.) on as many patients as possible and report the results. Back came results on 1,060 cases: over 91% apparently cured, regardless of sex, color or stage of the disease. Many of the failures were cured by a second injection. The rest were re-treated-and nearly all cured-by slower penicillin methods...
...sophomores raged at Freshman Woollcott's "excessively wrinkled and bagged trousers, a misshapen corduroy coat, grimy sneakers . . . red fez with gilt tassel." He became the best-hated man on the campus. He wrote plays with such titles as Mabel, the Beautiful Shopgirl, and played the feminine leads himself. Sex-obsessed, he sat up nights reading Krafft-Ebing and Havelock Ellis, poring over accounts of the trial of Oscar Wilde. He fought every boy in sight, bought a .45-caliber revolver and talked sullenly of suicide. "It may well be," says Biographer Adams mildly, "that he was still in some...