Word: assertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fromm called on man to assert himself and begin to ask not what's likely (curiosity), but what's possible (concern...
...that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition of reason, which is the Catholic tradition, to assert itself...
...facetiously known as "Gangster" or "Gangst," is fatally crippled by having a gentle nature. Like Gunga Din or Sir Philip Sidney, of whom Dinger has vaguely heard, Boone is a "real mug" with "no future." Yet for a while, Dinger and Boone are "chinas," or buddies.* They try to assert their individuality against the khaki mass, against superior officers who are "189% swine," and against the witless cruelty of a state that knows nothing but its own welfare. They form a club of two-the "indes" or independents-against the "packers," the Pack Faction, whose boots, they realize, they must...
...metal cup is inserted in the opening of the birth canal and applied to the baby's skull. Pressure is reduced to half an atmosphere or less, so the scalp develops a big bump or "chignon," which fills the cup. Danger of maternal infection is reduced, the doctors assert, because no foreign body passes beyond the baby's head. Risk of injury to the mother-and apparently to the baby-is virtually eliminated. The chignon subsides within a couple of hours after birth. A major advantage, say the Britons, though Americans disagree, is that the ventouse...
...inaugural committee, as 5,000 invited dignitaries fought for its 180 first-class rooms. Conrad Hilton, arriving to lay the cornerstone of his Brasilia Hilton, was offered a cot in the Palace Hotel barbershop. Said Deputy Neira Moreira: "I regret to report that Deputies are even drawing arms to assert their rights to dwellings...