Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the drive of his summer villa. He had just locked the car when he was bowled along the driveway by two streams of machine-gun bullets. As his family and friends poured out of their houses, Nino painfully lifted up his bullet-ridden body and stumbled to the threshold of his villa, where, leaning against the door, he died on his feet as a good Sicilian should...
...important implication." says Dr. Hardy, "is that high-intensity, intractable pain is a physiologic impossibility, and no pain, even at threshold level, can be sustained without remission for long periods of time. So-called intractable pain must therefore be of low intensity, periodic, or must not be truly pain at all, but rather a combination of nonpainful sensations which are interpreted by the individual as unpleasant and unacceptable...
...Live All You Can." Over the next half-decade or so, the autobiography's "fadograph of a yestern scene" loses its glow of childhood happiness. But as he marched to the threshold of his middle years, James located himself: "What had I ever been and could I ever be but a man of imagination at the active pitch?" Much like James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the autobiography ends with James ready "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race...
...maintains "There is a simple job to be done.... The necessary techniques are known. The equipment needed can easily be provided. Nothing stands in the way but cultural inertia. But what is more characteristic of America than an unwillingness to accept the traditional as inevitable? We are on the threshold of an exciting and revolutionary period, in which the scientific study of man will be put to work in man's best interests. Education must play its part. It must accept the fact that a sweeping revision of educational practice is possible and inevitable. When it has done this...
...coping with Communist penetration efforts. Afterwards, Holland remarked: "No doubt about it, this appears to be the best government to deal with that Brazil has ever had." Said Nixon in a speech at the Volta Redonda steel plant the following day: "I confidently believe that Brazil is on the threshold of an era of progress unequaled in history by any nation in this Hemisphere. I am confident that with its abundant resources, its great people and its dedicated leadership, Brazil's progress in the next few years will startle the world...