Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agree to that plan, was profoundly disturbed. The Wallace criticisms were based either on ignorance, or on distortion of the facts. Despite the fact that Harry Truman meanwhile had thrown Wallace out of his Cabinet, Baruch insisted that Wallace come to him and talk things over. Baruch had in mind Wallace's many earnest followers, to whom Wallace was a man of great and sincere ideals, who believed in Henry Wallace and everything he said. Baruch wanted to nail the errors before they did any more harm...
...industry away from its foreign owners in 1938, most Mexicans cooked on charcoal braziers. Then, with sudden oil wealth, the Avila Camacho Government ordered landlords to furnish kerosene stoves. A domestic revolution ensued. Last week Josefina Novarra, 23, stood in a Mexico City kerosene queue and spoke her mind. "Look how we have to stand in line to get a little kerosene for our stoves," she grumbled. "And they want certain kinds of cans or they won't sell you any. Damn the whole Pemex outfit...
...this time a great idea had taken shape in Bennett's mind. Farmers would, he was sure, use science voluntarily if properly approached. He proposed that they be persuaded to band together in "soil conservation districts," each choosing its officers in a democratic election, and running its own affairs. Bennett's experts would help the districts as "land doctors." In their kits they had a dazzling array of medicines. For gullies, they described cheap, home-made dams and new plants, such as kudzu vine, to hold the sliding soil. For hilly fields they prescribed novel methods of contour...
Bernanos is trying to explore states of mind too private to be communicable. Few novelists could give flesh and blood to such a clutter of spiritual skeletons as inhabit the De Clergerie chateau; even fewer could use a teen-age girl as the symbol for an exalted faith without making her too good to be true. Joy is fair evidence of why Novelist Bernanos has never influenced many and yet has vigorously influenced...
...violent contrast that sets Palestine apart from its Middle Eastern Neighbors is indelibly impressed on the traveller's mind as he makes his way from the desert wastes of Egypt and southern Palestine, and finally catches a glimpse of the ordered green of a Jewish agricultural settlement. Contrast is your next door neighbor in Palestine: the winding and tortuous lanes that are the streets of Jericho and Beersheba; the broad landscaped boulevards of Tel Aviv; the picturesque and "perfumed" Arab Markets in the "Old City"; the Hospital and Hebrew University that overlook the New Jerusalem; an orange grove pushing back...