Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was about all the President had on his mind. All week he dodged the capital's sweltering 96° heat by sticking to the air-conditioned White House, catching up on routine business, and doing some thinking on the British crisis (see INTERNATIONAL...
...President should be and will be nominated and should be and will bo elected." He had given up all ideas of a third party headed by Henry Wallace. Said Pepper: "I think Mr. Wallace can render his best service by continuing to be a private citizen who speaks his mind freely...
...dismal hotel," he recalled, "the hall porter was reading Jurgen. The night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
Bodet was cheered from the time he ended until he had walked three-quarters of the way around the room to his seat between Bolivia and Haiti. He had said what practically every Latin delegate had on his mind. While the Rio Conference's top subject was joint defense of the hemisphere, the Latin republics, harassed by inflation and meager dollar reserves, were much more eager to talk about economics...
...Pannini's wide, quiet ruins with the roaring tide of history: "As I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter . . . the idea of writing the decline and fall of the City first started to my mind...