Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nomination for Man of the Year is Mohandas Gandhi. In a warring world, here is a man of peace, whose mastery of body by mind has enabled him to conquer the British .Empire without firing a shot...
...Addressed Envelope. Crestfallen George Morgan returned to the U.S. But in a year he was back, pleading again for 0-Yuki's hand. Once more she refused, and once more George left Japan, leaving behind this time a self-addressed envelope in case O-Yuki should change her mind. Then, without notice, 0-Yuki's law student quit school to marry a rich man's daughter; O-Yuki promptly mailed the envelope. Within 20 days, which was very good time in 1903, George was at her side...
...Mize, 40, took his B.A. in journalism at the University of Kansas and went to work for the United Press. He was a good newspaperman; one night he made up his mind that he would be a better minister...
There Hu studied farming, switched to philosophy when told that he had to memorize the names of 300 varieties of apples. Later he took his doctor's degree at Columbia under John Dewey, who called Hu the keenest mind he had ever met on Morningside Heights. Hu dated a Chinese Vassar girl, but married the village girl to whom his family had engaged him in childhood. Ambassador Hu's wife, too shy and unconfident to come to the U.S., stayed behind in Peking. When the Japanese came, she rescued at great peril what she knew was most precious...
Once, ten years ago, the harsh outlines of reality had begun to focus in Nijinsky's blurred mind. He was allowed to leave his secluded asylum in Switzerland, lived privately for a time in his wife's native Hungary. He had begun to recognize friends. Then came war, and the sound of bombs sent him cowering back into his world of shadow. The Russians found him in Hungary, put him up in the best hotel in Vienna, gave him a box at the ballet. The Russians assured Romola that Nijinsky would be welcomed in Russia as a hero...