Word: albeit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are many motives and mechanisms. Most striking motive, albeit unconscious, is "the psychological equivalent of murder . . . an endeavor to destroy the other person (for which there is no legal penalty). Also common, says Dr. Searles, is the need to get rid of "threatening craziness in oneself," achieved by telling another member of the family, "You're crazy." Most powerful of all, thinks Dr. Searles, is the utterly unconscious need to drive somebody else crazy so that an unhealthy state of mutual dependence can continue despite anxieties and frustrations...
...reassuring to know that the United States can send a satellite, albeit a diminutive sphere in comparison to the Russian planet, around the sun. It is not so heartening to read about the snafu which resulted in "losing" the mute and more mundane "Discoverer I," the first polar satellite...
...agreements will be ratified in their respective countries, the Greek-Turkish agreement is a major step forward. Potential dangers are certainly much better than present killings; perhaps the continual rounds of bomb-throwings, executions, and curfews, shall cease. The events of the week can be cheered with vigor, albeit with caution...
...Nikita Khrushchev was TIME'S 1957 choice for Man of the Year, then he doubly deserves your selection for 1958. No other man dominated the world's news more, albeit to the disgust of free men and nations, than this sly, scheming, abusive, arrogant, warmongering, vodka-guzzling Soviet Premier. His crowning achievement, in a year of diabolic propaganda missiles and poison-pen missives, is his current step to fold up the four-power occupation of Berlin, thus defying Western determination to hold on in West Berlin. What other choice is more timely...
...visitors have a fairly strong albeit inexperienced supply of reserves, among them a pair of 6 ft., 8 in sophomores and several returnees from last year's team, which did not meet the Crimson...