Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trotted onto the field at Boston's Fenway Park for the first of a three-game series with the Red Sox, DiMaggio was far from mid-season physical condition, but a load had been taken off his mind and he seemed to feel nine feet tall. In his first time at bat, he lashed out a sharp single. The next time, he slammed a home run, drove in the runs that won the game. Red Sox fans came to their feet and gave him one of the loudest and longest ovations ever heard in Fenway Park. Joe was back...
...unspoilt youth . . . with his mind just waking up and his feelings all fresh and open to the good," Essayist G. Lowes Dickinson once wrote, "is the most beautiful thing this world produces...
...Looters. Which of the three traditions should be chosen? Though Sir Walter's heart leans towards the first, his mind rejects all three. Instead, he says, a new sort of Christianization process is needed if universities are to correct the world's confusion rather than merely reflect...
...secretaries were not at all pleased by a list of "ten commandments" drawn up by a panel of businessmen. Samples: "Keep the tired businessman's pills straight. Dress with decorum, not decollete; the boss wants to keep his mind on his work. Correct the boss's grammar and spelling, but do it tactfully. Take messages that won't need the decoding of a top secret. When the boss's wife calls, be diplomatic. Be compatible, but not too compatible...
...Criminal Mind. In Pontiac, Mich., Mrs. Opal E. Caughell told police, that when the burglar who entered her house was assured that she had no money, he settled for a ham sandwich. In Kansas City, Mo., police were looking for a youth who kidnaped 59-year-old Mrs. Sadie Crosner, took her money and car, then kissed her gently on the cheek with the observation that she reminded him of his mother. In Redding, Calif., Dick Farnsworth found a note on the door of his rifled store: "Get a new lock; this one is too easy...