Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While still President-elect, contemplating both foreign and domestic affairs and the shape of his Administration, Nixon is enjoying the exertion of power without the pressure of urgent responsibility. "He's not under the gun," says one aide, "not in his own mind. He's going to be damned sure it's put together right, and with the right people." The announcement of Cabinet officers was due this week, but Nixon was not rushing matters. He was not even in a hurry to nominate a new Chief Justice, although he has frequently criticized the Supreme Court...
...discovering hidden benefits that scarcely anyone knew existed. Welfare officials, in turn, are being pressured to grant new benefits, such as money for telephones and Christmas gifts, so that life on welfare can more closely approximate life in the rest of America. Yet the welfare militants have more in mind than just getting a little more. By stretching the current system to its farthest limit, they reason, they will make it so expensive that the nation will have to search for an alternative...
...when Tinkerbell is dying, and Peter turns to the audience and asks everyone to clap if they believe in fairies? The other day I read a critic who claimed it was all a dirty attempt to make the kiddies accept homosexuality. I was shocked. Not at the smut charge, mind you, but at the critic's inference that I believed in Peter and his boys at all. You just can't be brought up on television and still believe...
...snatched Johnny's toys. Get a lot of toys" ...). The children resolved the conflict by derogating the unfortunate victim, aparently as justification for Rocky's exploitive-assaultive behavior. They criticized Johnny for his inability to control Rocky ("He's a cry baby. Didn't know how to make Rocky mind"), for his miserliness ("If he'd shared right in the beginning, Rocky might have played nice"), and generally described him as "Sulky," "Mean," and "Sort of dumb...
...crisis of the franc, like most currency crises, was a thing of the mind. The economy of France is basically healthy: its balance of payments is sound; its unemployment rate is fairly low; productivity has been rising at a reasonable rate. The franc was in peril because enough of those holding it as currency were afraid it would...