Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tying his evening bow behind the points of his wing collar. He also affects the American habit of pressing a crease in his sleeve." Ex-Ambassador Maisky "makes the mistake of fastening his bottom waistcoat button" -a mistake, admits T & C, that might be accounted for by the class-conscious fact that "the leave-it-undone style was created by royalty...
...exclusive Page One interview, black President Estimé renounced the color-conscious "black" politics on which he had campaigned, declared that black Haitians were no more "authentic" than any others. When they got a look at Journal, Estimé's ardently "black" political chieftains threatened to desert his camp...
...talking about spies. He had moments of luck (trucks that picked him up at just the right moment); he also suffered from blunders-his own and those of the men who had trained him. American phrases had crept into his speech, and his conversation had grown self-conscious and artificial. But he was principally separated from the people around him because he no longer shared their defeat or their hopes, the undercurrent of panic, their confusion, their bitterness, or their dull conviction that the retreat of the German army would be stopped...
Cortisone is made, in 37 chemical steps over a six-month period, from the bile of slaughtered oxen (40 head are required for a single daily dose). Merck & Co., who make it, produce only about 1½ ounces a week. Acutely conscious of the desperate demand, research chemists have been plugging away at the problem, trying to speed the process and eventually mass-produce the drug...
...Cost-conscious ("I put a price tag on everything I do") and confident, he thinks that he can lick Curtiss-Wright's problems. Says he: "In a couple of years, my record will speak for itself...