Word: sane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short-Range. The short-range objectives are supposed to establish sane and honest conditions for freer trade in Western Europe as soon as possible, and to prod its industry into more competition and greater efficiency. The U.S. Congress will expect to be shown considerable progress toward these objectives when it considers iQSo's EGA appropriations early next year. The objectives...
...head and pulls himself up by his fingertips; he stands with one foot on an inch-wide ledge looking for another-inch-wide ledge; he jams his fist into a crack for a hold fast. From the top of the cliff another mountaineer, who has gone up the sane way, "belays" the climber with nylon rope in case he should fall. From the bottom of the cliff the rest of the party offers verbal encouragement...
Working on the theory that any re-routing of traffic in existing channels was only a stop-gap measure, these three devised a revolutionary scheme to redesign the entire Cambridge shopping center (see model). Creating new arteries of traffic and increasing parking space, their blueprint for a safe-and-sane Harvard Square would solve the automobile problem now faced by every city laid out in the days of the horse and buggy...
...There is not one Germany. There are three. One (Bavaria) is the Germany of beer, a second (Prussia) is the Germany of schnapps and the third (the Rhineland) is the Germany of wine. The only people sober enough to rule all three in a sane, sensible manner are those from the wine country...
...good, is done to mental patients by prefrontal lobotomy-an operation inside the skull which cuts the lines of communication between some of the parts of the brain which govern social behavior. Now a closely related issue is to be threshed out in the courts: Does a normal, sane man suffer irreparable injury when such an operation is performed...