Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should the American people prove such fertile ground for sentiments of this kind? The answer is to be found in the psychological process called "displacement of aggression". Briefly, this process involves frustrations, which tend to arouse hostility. Normally, this hostility is directed against the offending object or persons...
...about over. There would be an end to the high times in the hostels in Kunming, to souvenir-buying where price was no object, to the calculatingly reckless battles with the Jap and the thundering return to the home fields when the battle was over. There would be an end to the fat checks from Major Greenlaw, the paymaster, and an end to the squadron parties where Major Greenlaw's glamorous White Russian wife presided...
...General Maxwell looked at his work, decided to hold his first press conference. He explained that the Mission's object had been to service and observe Lend-Lease planes, tanks, other equipment. To this end he had: 1) brought all previous American observers, technicians, advisers into his organization; 2) expanded Italian installations in Eritrea into supply and repair bases ("We took up the job where they left off; it was very convenient"); 3) established schools to train British personnel on U.S. equipment, and so thoroughly familiarized them with U.S. matériel that he could now turn the schools...
...Object Lesson...
...bottom changes less rapidly and radically than one's face, the latter being exposed to wind and weather as well as the ravages of time." The human face, Monsieur de Malancourt remarked, is like that of a fish and has been immemoriably, much over-rated as an art-object...