Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water-ski jumps usually consist of wooden platforms set with rollers or slime covered ramps aimed skyward at a forty-five degree angle. The two principle points the aspirant jumper must bear in mind as he finds himself launched into the air by this maniacal device are: (1) he must release the tow rope at the top of the jump; and (2) sooner or later he will come down...
...inane inclination of the average American to ... almost genuflect at the presence of a European title, phony or otherwise," snarled Sinclair Lewis, "is, to my mind ... a pathetic demonstration of sycophants. ... I wish the British would test our ridiculous national sub servience by offering a few of their hollow titles in the American open market . . . just to see who would leap at the chance to buy one." Columnist Elsa Maxwell reported that Author John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.) had told her he was reading Thucydides' Peloponnesian War "to learn all about modern politics and modern war." Added Elsa: "Maybe...
...Gaines, who was 28 by the time his case was settled, changed his mind about going to law school. "Haven't heard of him since," says Marshall...
...convinced that freedom is "an ideal which can only be experienced in the recesses of the mind . . . in the silence of the heart. . . . The only way to discover absolute freedom is to become a prisoner. Yield the whole of yourself to something that will circumscribe your life. Then you'll discover freedom. Moral, spiritual, physical...
...charged with is (among other things) a lack of faith. They all have the same insincerity, the same distrust of anyone else's sincerity. They have the same raw ambition, the same bitter kiss-my-foot contempt for each other. They all have the same childish fretfulness of mind...