Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient talks, the psychoanalyst listens for evidence of "unconscious wishes." of "suppressed desires," of hidden motives. He watches for these signs in accounts of dreams, in words, in reported actions, in sudden hesitations and slips of the tongue, in strange lapses of memory. As the talks go on-and on & on-the patient gets used to having the analyst there, listening. The analyst does not try to boss, but often guides, the patient. The theory is that if the patient talks enough about his troubles, he will finally get 1) the relief any confession brings; 2) a somewhat less sentimental...
...Sternist prisoners at Jaffa made their own rules, ripped bars from the windows and tore down the steel doors connecting their cells. Guards, who feared that the prisoners might still have hidden arms, thoughtfully left their own guns outside before entering the cell block...
...smoke-bomb apparently had been hidden behind a row of books on a shelf some time before it went off. Workers in the department had seen no one near the shelf when or immediately before the bomb detonated...
...back to this brass ring--it was bought in Italy. Now in case you aren't up on your baseball statistics, it's a fact that nine out of ten times the hidden ball play has worked, it has been pulled by the Italians. Freat actors, the Italians. Great actors, those Italians, And this ring reminds me of an extra great actor Harold Wit '29 and I met in Rome...
That little man was the greatest. He could have played the hidden trick on nine out of ten other Italians...