Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people, his careful preparation for every battle and his willingness to stick his neck out have finally won him the respect of some of his old enemies. Wrote the New RePublic's Washington columnist, T.R.B.: "Tactless, humorless and almost incapable of dissimulation, Taft is, to our mind, also diligent and courageous. His willingness to assume responsibility is poles away from those former G.O.P. New Deal critics who were merely willing to attack...
...surprised. Gus Kuester ran a hoe-hardened hand through his silvery hair, told his colleagues in his slow, casual way that the chief thing he has in mind is a successful session...
...present his case to Prime Minister Clement Attlee. In the British capital he attracted attention by carrying a lady's umbrella, established a reputation for generosity by tossing around ?100 tips. At No. 10 Downing Street, he talked loudly about Sudanese independence, but added that no one would mind if the British stayed for a while to teach the Sudanese how to run the country...
...figures which mean little until digested mathematically. Sometimes this chore is simple, requiring only an adding machine, or a pencil, paper and persistence. More often, as science takes off into thinner & thinner abstractions, each calculation is a double-jointed equation. There may be thousands to solve, each a mind-racking job. Most established research centers have bales of figures lying around which no one has time or courage to analyze...
Military problems are not all it can do. Physicists, mathematicians, engineers drool with desire to punch their problems on its willing tape. Economist Wassily W. Leontief of Harvard wants the calculator to put its mechanical mind on the nation's economic planning...