Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doubt that many coeds had that sort of student power in mind when they decided to share themselves with Yale for one week. Although there were innumerable efforts to make it respectable by scheduling coeducational panel discussions with titles like, "Educational Innovation: Is It Possible Within The Present University Structure?" and "Exploitation In Ghetto Real-Estate Transactions," we all knew why we were there, and they all knew why we were there and we didn't need any panel discussions to help us along...
...meeting that he had only volunteered his room because everyone else on his corridor had and he had been subject to some "pressure" and, besides, he had Law Boards on Saturday and he didn't like being dislocated before a test like that, and he hoped I didn't mind but he was going to take his radio and alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room as long as he legally could (from 8 a.m. to midnight). He did, and I was forced to tiptoe around him while...
...HAROLD J. LASKI: The expert, simply by reason of his immersion in a routine, tends to lack flexibility of mind once he approaches the margins of his special theme. He is incapable of rapid adaptation. No man is so adept at realizing difficulties within the field that he knows; but few are so incapable of meeting situations outside that field...
Initially, Humphrey thought Richard Nixon would be an easy target. The Chicago debacle changed his mind. In retrospect, Humphrey believes that he might have made more headway with Eugene McCarthy's dissidents if he had spoken out sooner on Viet Nam. Even before the convention, he had a speech ready saying that he might try a bombing halt if elected. But he was persuaded to wait until the end of September by advice from Paris that an earlier announcement might have hampered the peace talks. Humphrey, unlike many supporters and pollsters, does not believe that a few more days...
...stymied by the unwillingness of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu to agree to send a delegation to Paris and sit at the same negotiating table with the National Liberation Front of the Viet Cong. There were reports and rumors that he was about to change his mind. But the delay brought to nearly a month the elapsed time since the bombing halt. Meanwhile, the war on the ground in South Viet Nam sputtered...