Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel - "a scientific anatomy of pain, not a tepid caricature of misery." Teppe warns his disciples to shun society. Because nobody dares utter the complete truth, which is too cruel for people to withstand, "every conversation is a lie." Excitement too must be avoided ("enthusiasm is our enemy"). The biggest disillusionment of all is love. Says Teppe : "Love should be inevitable, preordained; it should happen to elective affinities...
...hitting Spruille Braden. "We cannot possibly avoid using it, for it weighs in the balance just as much even when we do not deliberately apply it or when we deliberately seek to avoid applying it. . . . If a nation has great power, as we have it in abundance, it cannot shun the obligation to exercise commensurate leadership . . . positively on behalf of human rights...
Americans inclined to dismiss or shun the looming contest for world power would have done well to ponder the principal questions raised in San Francisco last week...
...were taking a few million fewer people into account. The fact remains that Allen is not only a first-rate humorist but also the possessor of one of America's most honest, observant and murderously sardonic minds. That is one reason why so many people who shun most radio programs go out of their way to find...
...those who want to break themselves of the filthy habit: i) chew 5? worth of gentian root (or camomile blossoms) every time the craving strikes; 2) take ½ teaspoonful each of Rochelle salts and cream of tartar before breakfast; 3) cut out highly seasoned foods and stimulating drinks; 4) shun all smokers and smoke-filled rooms; 5) take Turkish baths; 6) think of something else. But U.S. cigaret smokers, finding gentian root even more awkward to buy than fags, went right on smoking Strange Fruit, or whatever they were called...