Word: sures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Change of Attire. Over the smiles, the flowers, the bubbles, hung a question: Just what is this new Commonwealth? Not the old one, that was sure. Most prominent and respected man at the London conference last week was Jawaharlal Nehru, who had spent 14 years of his life in British jails; for this he held no grudge against Britain, but for his lifelong struggle he certainly had no repentance. Nehru, on arriving in London, changed his long black sherwani for a Savile Row suit. He looked well in a Homburg...
William Lyon Mackenzie King had represented Canada at international conferences ever since 1908. This year, before he finally retired, he wanted to attend just one more: the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS). To be sure he made it, he had the conference postponed four months, until the August Liberal convention...
...Laurent was more than willing. Previously there had been a good political reason for staying at home: fear that Quebec's anti-British bloc might misunderstand a trip to London right after his election as Liberal leader. The charge was sure to be made in Quebec that St. Laurent had gone to London to get British orders on how to run Canada. The emergency created by Mr. King's illness would stifle any such talk...
...trying both drugs and surgery - notably, operations on particular parts of the brain). Psychiatrists do not think that they have all the answers, but they believe that their techniques of healing, still very largely in the experimental stage, have had some extraordinary results. They are not always sure just how or why their techniques work, but so long as the patient gets better, they are content to plug away at the techniques and let the theories wait. Psychiatrists use great doses of good will, some guesswork, and a few tricks picked up from mankind's troubled past...
...illustration of the Conscious v. Unconscious conflict. The mind, he says, is something like a clown act featuring a two-man fake horse. The man up front (the Conscious part of the mind) tries to set the direction and make the whole animal behave; but he can never be sure what the man at the rear end of the horse (the Unconscious) is going to do next. If both ends of the horse are going in the same direction, your mental health is all right. If they aren't pulling together, there's likely to be trouble...