Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America now enters the arena of history on her own. All the chill introspection which attends the individual at the death of a cooperative and sympathetic parent who, wisely or unwisely, consciously or unconsciously, shielded him from the full weight of the world, comes home to the heart and mind. America has lost its mother. . . . Great Britain has been that . . . and she has evoked the devotion, the suspicion, the resentment which fits into the personal relationship between a powerful, strong-willed parent and her equally strong-willed and powerful...
...conscientious King George and matronly Queen Elizabeth deserve. That is precisely what her future subjects want her to be. Transplanted by some magic into almost any upper-middle-class suburb in the U.S., Mr. & Mrs. George Windsor would undoubtedly be among the solidest section of the community. With her mind never quite detached from the children, well-read, talented Mrs. Windsor would find time to be popular and businesslike at meetings of the Altar Guild and the Garden Club...
...plan for Gouzenko. He explained that he knew "seven or eight other men" who would be willing to contribute a fund to buy a Dominion Government annuity for Gouzenko. Told that $24,000 would buy an annuity paying him $100 a month for life, the businessman said:"Never mind the other fellows, I'll do the whole thing myself. Let's let Russia and the Communists know that we're at least grateful enough to Gouzenko not to let him starve...
...Alamos grew bigger, it called in an outside educator as superintendent of schools. He figured that the brilliant scientists of Los Alamos must have brilliant offspring-probably an average I.Q. of 150. His school consequently emphasized college preparation for all, leaned hard on "oldfashioned" studies that discipline the mind...
More than one plain-spoken journalist has found his phrases turning fuzzy trying to explain Henry Wallace. Some basic amorphous quality of mind & manner in Wallace has defied definition, by either swooning admirers or exasperated critics...