Word: unwantedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In 1952, Reagan married Actress Nancy Davis, now 43, the daughter of Chicago Neurosurgeon Loyal Davis. Reagan first met her when she complained to the Screen Actors Guild that she was receiving unwanted Communist literature in the mail. They have two children, Patricia, 13, and Ronald Prescott, 8. The Reagans...
Unwanted Power. The Senate zeroed in on the reserves. "We can't permit the six-month reserve-training program," said Missouri's Stuart Symington, "to become an umbrella for avoiding active service." Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, prestigious Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee...
The best definition of noise, most experts agree, is "unwanted sound." What is most indisputably unwanted about noise is its capacity to cause deafness. And this seriously limiting disability is far more insidiously acquired than most people realize.
Freud dealt with noise irritation as a symptom of anxiety neurosis "undoubtedly explicable on the basis of the close inborn connection between auditory impressions and fright." But Freud did not live in a modern apartment. People who do are subject to what Columbia University Urban Planner Charles Abrams calls "a...
The irony of the air-conditioner uproar is that, however unwanted the sound it makes on the outside, the hiss of air inside is just what the noise doctor ordered. Sound engineers refer to it as "white noise" or "acoustical perfume," and they use it widely, especially in offices, to...