Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unpleasant associations, mainly a feeling of compulsion, of regimentation. The occupant of a screwed-down chair seems more often than not to be a victim, a passive but restless recipient of a necessary, but irksome attention. I must be thinking of barbers' chairs, dentists' chairs, and possibly electric chairs. Somehow screwing down seems inappropriate to a class-room...
...writes, that the idea first took root that psychoanalysis and religion could somehow lie down together and live happily ever after. "In America all races and creeds live and work peacefully side by side-why should not ideas do likewise? . . . It is . . .in such a benign climate of opinion that the current love affair between psychoanalysis and religion has been, time & again, consummated. There have been bickerings . . . and the Catholic Church has shown itself to be a rather frigid partner. But, all in all, things have gone well, and the occasional Catholic reserve has been more than made...
...feels that he has a better than even chance. Says he thoughtfully: "Sometimes it takes an awful lot of kicking to get a man straightened out." Though he never mentions drinking on the air, he feels that an intense and sympathetic bond has grown between him and his audience. "Somehow, they can sense I've suffered and that I'm sympathetic to other people's suffering," he says. "I get all kinds of letters telling me how I've helped people. I say to them: 'Keep right on doing what you're doing...
...them, George Goncharov (who now teaches at Sadler's Wells), recalls that "directly I saw her I knew she had a ballerina's head. Her face-she was very attractive with big, dark eyes-seemed to talk to me. She held herself beautifully. She was always somehow intent, as though she had some idea that she knew what she was about...
That was the last link that held the Constellation and 48 lives to earth. Sometime, somehow, in the next few minutes a heavy cloud and the high peak of Mt. Redondo on Sao Miguel Island combined and snapped the threads. A truckman saw a flash of light on the mountain. Planes took off to search, and eight hours later a twisted, fire-blackened heap was sighted on the mountainside. In the Constellation's wreckage were its 48 dead, burned beyond recognition...