Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone out to dinner the night before, leaving the children in charge of a 16-year-old Negro boy. She returned about 10:30 and dismissed the "sitter." She was found next day in the trench coat in which she entered the house. The police questioned the baby-tender and believed his story. Mrs. Higginson's broken wrist watch indicated that the attack had come, apparently from behind, at 11:15. There had been no attempt at rape, no robbery. Six special investigators went to work; 30 state police beat through the dark woods; and the boys' father...
Maier's plan derives from experiments which upset orthodox psychological notions. He forced rats to jump at one of two differently marked cards, one of which led to food while the other only bruised the rats' tender snouts. Then he switched the cards. Result: the rats became wildly neurotic. When repeatedly frustrated, a rat would throw itself blindly again & again at an unyielding card, even though there was food in plain sight beside...
...turn, 0 Jesus, to Thy most loving heart, as to our last hope. 0 God of mercy, with tears we invoke Thee to end this fearful scourge; O King of peace, we humbly implore the peace for which we long. . . . During Thy life on earth Thy heart beat with tender compassion for the sorrows of men; in this hour made terrible with burning hate, with bloodshed and with slaughter, once more may Thy Divine heart be moved to pity...
...nature's cycle has returned to the vegetarian stage once more, and Yard-birds awake at an early hour can glimpse the first tender leaves of lettuce peeking up between Harvard and Hollis. Meat-eaters look forward eagerly to the expected influx of rabbit...
...this war the Army has shown itself to be considerably less tender with erring generals than the solicitous Navy is with its admirals-of whom not one has been broken. The Army has broken plenty...