Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone's mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger Hiss, until 1947 a top official in the State Department, or ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, now a senior editor of TIME. By week's end, it was clear that on one vital point it was not Whittaker Chambers who was lying...
...temper and the general bearing of a small-town pool-hall operator. Crowds bother him and he cannot hide a furtive wariness when job seekers approach him. He is a dedicated horseplayer-who makes two dollar bets. But he has the "Long Look" and a shrewd insight into the mind of Louisiana's tobacco-chewing common...
...enjoying the luxury of his daily shave at the King Hotel barbershop can occasionally wheedle some news out of him. But he is adept at dodging, and when tracked down is apt to indulge in nothing more informative than a tirade on the evil inherent in the journalistic mind...
Earl Warren made one important proviso when he agreed to become Tom Dewey's running mate. If the Republicans won, the Vice President would have something more to do than just preside over the Senate. Exactly what Warren had in mind (and what Dewey may have promised him) came out last week. A biography of Warren by Author (Lust for Life) Irving Stone describes the plan...
Ernie Bevin still remained chilly. But Paul-Henri Spaak weightily changed his mind, admitted "It is a good idea...