Word: soulfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month mark on a soul-trying stabilization program, Bolivia took a look around last week to see if the stern anti-inflation measure was actually working. By most of the signs, it was. But with rumblings from labor on the rise, the question now is how much longer the nation would keep taking the medicine...
Latest findings by psychosomatic medicine men on the interaction of body and soul in causing disease...
...soul that Greenbloom saves is that of adolescent John Blaydon, who is typical of the schoolboy in the English novel during the past 100 years-sensitive, mildly precocious, ignored by adults except when he exasperates or embarrasses them. John Blaydon does both frequently, for he is incapable of committing a transgression without being caught. When he goes swimming in the nude with nubile Victoria Blount, she almost drowns, and John is discovered by an entire house party as he sits astride her thighs applying artificial respiration. At school John is similarly arraigned by fate when a homosexual classmate slips into...
...Times of Indonesia: "Having succeeded to the imperial purple so long worn by the British, the United States today has also inherited its concomitant-resentment, envy, and the readiness of others to take offense at the drop of a hat. It's time for Washington to do some soul searching." (This, if put more charitably, comes close to a general U.S. reaction-the ruefully philosophical recognition that the U.S. is now a big power and therefore must expect to be kicked around as a matter of course...
...hastily commandeered Paris taxicabs to the Marne, where they helped to stem the Boche tide? Dutourd says simply: in 1940 "the generals were stupid and the men did not want to be killed." From Commander in Chief Gamelin down, with the honorable exception of De Gaulle ("one great soul"), the generals were "doddering numskulls." "cockroaches," "poltroons." They "had the instruments of victory in their hands. What nobody realized was this: they were longing to change their profession. They did not like war . . . Their real inclination was for quieter occupation: accountant, postmaster, colonial administrator . . . The damned scoundrels...