Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peers. What makes "Helena Morley" a very special girl is the fact that she told not only all, or nearly all. to her diary, but published the diary in full. Following the day-by-day account, the reader will make a friend and also cross a threshold toward a special kind of understanding...
...couldn't keep him there. Half-blinded, hardly able to manage the ludicrous war dance he likes to use to "unlazy his legs," Tommy kept coming back to tag his tormentor with occasional punches. After ten rounds, Tommy's manager, Lippy Breidbart, a man with a high threshold for someone else's pain, tossed in the towel to give Machen...
...this country needs is a pushbutton to end all pushbuttons−to send the whole mess into one junk heap. The gadget-drunk public is the dupe of a gigantic industrial swindle geared to the plan of speeding the necessity of replacement. No more mechanical junk shall cross my threshold. I'm off for the hills, behind old Dobbin...
Grinning like a bridegroom at his third wedding, Detroit's James Riddle Hoffa waited in Miami last week at the threshold of his highest ambition-presidency of the giant, 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Yet few prospective bridegrooms-and indeed few union bosses-had ever been the target of so many brickbats, bombshells and booby traps calculated to keep him from the church on time. Items...
Spence thinks that "subliminal registration," e.g., below the threshold of consciousness, can work even without the subject's cooperation. Thus, ambitious opinion shapers of the future might possibly sell their political candidate-or breakfast food-by the supersoft-sell method of subconscious sight, flashing their slogans into living rooms under cover of a televised horse opera. Chuckles one TV executive with a conscious eye on the future: "It smacks of brainwashing, but of course it would be tempting...