Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind...
...Detroit, on deadline night, Ford Motor Co. officials waited more than six hours for the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers to make up its mind about what kind of a contract it wanted at Ford. The union had the choice of a straight 11½? increase plus six paid holidays or a 7?-an-hour pay boost along with a pension plan (TIME, Aug. 11). Ford had the U.A.W. over a barrel; if it failed to sign by midnight, the U.A.W. would be forced to give up its union shop or go to the NLRB for an election...
With the approach of the first millennium 947 years ago, says Mounier, man also looked to the destruction of his world. "The word 'apocalypse' has become synonymous, in the contemporary mind, with catastrophe and terror. This is a gross misunderstanding. I do not mean that the [10th Century] Christians . . . felt no holy terror at the idea of judgment and divine justice. They were neither better nor worse than we are, but they viewed their weaknesses from a high moral perspective. They thought that Justice would be severe, but they knew that the severity would be just. . . . Even when...
...concerns the over-whelming victory of the Russians under their hero, Nevsky. Though the tale is told as simply and as powerfully as an epic, there is much there to disgust and annoy American audiences. The extravagant hero-worship will only increase our lack of understanding of the Russian mind, while little can be found to excuse the vengeful care with which the camera follows the last efforts of the defeated soldiers drowning in an ice flow...
...presidency. But the film is of interest chiefly because it assembles in one place so many images of the face, so many recordings of the voice and the way of speaking-a full document of the changes that took place in externals and, by vivid inference, in the mind and spirit of the man. Some of these shots are hardly better than silly; some-notably Roosevelt's hurried, death-haunted address to Congress after his return from Yalta-are extraordinarily moving...