Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armies, the man who as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, forged the shield that protected recovery from that war, was the man who as U.S. President was the walking symbol of the West's hopes for an American-led future. "That man couldn't do wrong if he tried," said a woman in London. "He's got goodness written all over him," said another. In West Germany a young gasoline-station attendant said, "Eisenhower's a nice guy," and added in instant association, "Americans are honest when they say they want peace and justice...
...began with vigorous kicks at the moribund body of classical Freudian theory as he defined it (many latter-day Freudians would not buy his definition). "We psychologists." Mowrer said, ""have largely followed the Freudian doctrine that human beings become emotionally disturbed, not because of their having done anything palpably wrong, but because they instead lack insight. We have set out to oppose the forces of repression and to work for understanding. [This leads to] the discovery that the patient or client has been, in effect, too good, that he has within him impulses. especially those of lust and hostility, which...
Hell on Earth. As a result, said Dr. Mowrer. "not only have we disavowed the connection between manifest misconduct and psychopathology, we have also very largely abandoned belief in right and wrong, virtue and sin.'' The idea that man can have the benefits of an orderly social life, without paying for it through restraints and sacrifices, said Dr. Mowrer, is "a subversive doctrine...
...develop its turboprop Electra, and has orders for 178. But it needs to sell 100 to 200 more to break even. The planemakers are confident that they will sell all the planes they have to-and then some. But they are playing safe, in case they have guessed wrong. They have written off most-or all-of their heavy development costs so they will not be a burden in future years. If the planes are sold, profits will be fat. Lockheed's Chairman Robert Gross pointed out that in 1946. when Lockheed began to sell its Constellation, the company...
...Plume de Ma Tante. Two dozen Frenchmen can't be wrong in this mad and merry revue...