Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire control was chiefly an economically united Western Europe which would exercise federalized control of Germany's industrial areas. Then the economic unification of Germany could be brought about without the risk of resurgent German political domination. He compared the kind of "federal formula" he had in mind with the Tennessee Valley Authority. "It is not beyond human resourcefulness to find a form of joint control which will make it possible to develop the industrial potential of western Germany in the interest of the economic life of Western Europe." And in this enterprise, "we Americans ought to be able...
...commercial airlines were busier than ever before, they compiled the best safety record in history: 1.24 passengers killed per 100 million passenger-miles flown on scheduled flights. But in the last four months, 74 men, women & children have died in U.S. airline crashes. Etched into the public's mind last week were pictures of crumpled wreckage and gobbeted bodies that were far more vivid than any statistics. In Congress, South Carolina's Representative L. Mendel Rivers cried: "There's something wrong with the whole doggone setup and something ought to be done about...
...surface, the existence of this Russian base within 15 hours flying time of the American industrial heart is inimitable to American security. Soviet apologists will have difficulty finding justification in American demands anywhere. But the full measure of the gravity of this claim lies in the frame of mind that gives the Soviets license to crease treaty obligations at will, or under the flimsiest moral case since the phony Polish invasion of Germany in 1939. Under the Russian logic, the Treaty of Montreux and other of the accords reached following the last war, would be scratched from the books...
...Willmott Harsant Lewis, the wise and witty U.S. correspondent of the London Times, was waiting for a spent and deadlocked Democratic convention to make up its mind between McAdoo and Smith. To a fellow newsman he remarked: "I've been around here so long I'm impinging on eternity." By last week his crack (like many he had minted) had become legendary among Washington correspondents, and Sir Bill, willing to impinge but not to intrude upon eternity, was getting ready to retire (at 69) from a career no living newsman could match...
...aperture of the backsight. He was aiming at my throat. I had had them do that to me before in the camps. They aimed at you and stroked the trigger. For them it was like love making. They knew that you and they had the same thing in mind, the messiness and the pain of death and the amazing fragility of life. I dropped my eyes and shrugged my shoulders a little...