Word: trait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dates are with British and U.S. officers . . . one of them took her to see the prize fights between British and U.S. soldiers." Since I was this particular U.S. officer I can well confirm your description of Mary's gracious charm and mature intelligence. But let me add another trait: the indomitable Churchill courage against odds...
Allport explained the opposition to a labor party by pointing out a trait of human nature: general aims are adopted sooner than specific aims. People want the ends but do not accept the means to those ends. He also said that he was much surprised at the stand taken on this issue...
...love may take to candy, or a mother may teach her child to stuff himself, but no such obvious cause is present ... in most obese persons." Dr. Cutting suggested that overeating may be caused by "some psychologic drive which requires satiation by eating"; or maybe in some cases the trait is inherited-there is a strain of laboratory mice that habitually gorges, grows pudgy. But Dr. Cutting insisted that those who gain weight on little food simply have more efficient metabolism than big eaters who stay thin. He was sure that fat comes from too much food, that the best...
...Gazette masthead as publisher and who, as a foreign correspondent, has written two recent smash bestsellers: They Were Expendable and Journey for Margaret But most of the time Editorialist White is translating state and national issues into rich, rolling language full of human juices. His dominant trait: fairness...
...children be "unsectarian Christians . . . taking their religious inspiration directly from the spirit of the New Testament." Stafford absorbed her teachings, but quickly developed "a disconcerting habit of giving unsought, and often unwelcome, advice to elder members of the family." Result: his elder brothers dubbed him "Dad," and "the trait which earned the name has been a characteristic of his political life...