Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then hurried off to Chicago. Later, the press gave him additional education. He was pointedly informed that he had confused the Greek Pals (child) with pous (foot), that pediatrics was a branch of medicine dealing with children's diseases while podiatry (the word he might have had in mind) was the study of foot disorders...
Bedside Talks. Last week, sicker than usual, Patel stayed in bed. Few other 71-year-old men would call it a rest. From his visitors and from the distant effects of his bold and subtle schemes, it was apparent that in Patel's mind, at least, India was no chaos, but a puzzle to be fitted together with thought and patience...
...they answer not to thy call, walk alone, If they are afraid and cower mutely, facing the wall, O thou of evil luck, Open thy mind and speak out alone...
...realizations and recognitions which we would have the Russians make lie closer to the surface of the Russian mind than we might think. In fact, the more closely they approach the surface, the more violently the Russian tries to inhibit them and to conceal them by vehement protestations in the other direction. It is our business to help him with this problem...
...journalist of the closed mind . . . knows in advance which side he is on, and engages the correspondent or accepts the article that will give aid and comfort to that side. Forsaking the obligation to illuminate, he turns on the heat. The result is inevitable: the other side fights back. The blood pressure of the community rises. And what we tend to have in our journalism is not a town meeting in which unexpected opinions and fresh solutions and ingenious compromises have a hearing, but a pitched battle of propagandas. . . . A certain amount of this sort of partisan journalism...