Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eady and Cobbold could remind the creditors that: "It was your war as well as ours." But the best argument was simply that if everybody demanded his full pound of flesh, there would not be enough to go around. Before his death, Lord Keynes had spoken his mind about those sterling debts: "If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy...
...aimless drift; a policy of complete withdrawal, which influential voices will vigorously advocate; or a policy of continuous aid to the Gimo's Government on the condition of continued reform such as has been evident in the past year." If the U.S. did not make up its mind soon, doubt about eventual U.S. aid would encourage the Chinese Communists in their efforts to destroy the Chinese Government's currency by continuing the civil...
...full of the smell of dust, sweat and arnica, characters paid 50? to get in and crowd around. When Rocky, the biggest crowd-puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked to tell them kiddingly that he was going to throw the fight...
...Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin had been in Publisher Robert McLean's mind for a long time, but he had never had the right kinds of things to fill it with. He got them last fortnight when he bought up the strikebound Philadelphia Record from J. David Stern (TIME...
Although Harvard has achieved a highly desirable cosmopolitan makeup in the geographical sense, it still is bound down with a narrow economic clientele that must be expanded if any kind of balance is to be achieved in the undergraduate body. Organized with just this purpose in mind, the National Scholarships must be coupled with new efforts aimed at placing the young men of America's 20 million ill-taught families within examination-range of a Harvard education. This is the greatest share of the responsibility which lies deep in the socially-sensitive philosophy of the National Scholarship plan...