Word: mind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't bring itself to say so. In trying to write around this painful subject, the President's economic advisers composed some masterful doubletalk. Sample: At the present time both employers and workers should strive to work out adjustments which will help to stimulate activity, bearing in mind the need both for holding business costs down and for maintaining consumer purchasing power at high levels...
...hours later, Vaughan stepped off the train in Washington's sweltering Union Station. He tried to duck, but newsmen cornered him. One reporter asked Vaughan who paid for the Guatemala vacation. Vaughan flushed, drew back to strike the questioner, then changed his mind. "What the hell business is it of yours?" roared Vaughan, ". . . it cost me $2,000 to take my family on this vacation . . . it's nobody's goddamned business but mine and you can quote...
Leopold the golfer acts with his own mind, chooses his own partners, and arranges his own schedule. Leopold the monarch behaved in the same independent way. This, as every student of constitutional monarchy knows, can be dangerous for the state. Certainly, it is not good for a king's popularity. Leopold, for example, just before the Belgian parliamentary elections in which the "royal question" of his return was the prime issue (TIME, July 4), decided without consulting anyone to play in the French international golf tournament. Staunch monarchists winced; the King, they said, ought not to compete with just...
...Rule or Reign. Leopold's biggest mistake was his conviction about the outcome of World War II. In March 1940 he told a visitor: "I am as anti-Hitler as you are. But keep in mind that Germany will win the war." The King seemed right when the German army engulfed Belgium after 18 hopeless days of resistance. He refused to follow his government to exile in England. He surrendered his army. In both these actions he showed his stubborn will to rule rather than reign...
...fiasco he says: "I must have been out of my mind. I thought I'd just walk in and they'd point the camera at me. You have to cope with 16 people with things on their minds like making chalk marks on the floor . . . The director tells the cameraman to move to the right and he says, 'You mean your right or my right...