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Word: minded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your mind is hiding inside your head, daring only occasionally to peak out through your eyes. What it sees it remembers as being all white and moving very fast at sharp angles...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...Monday, the day after the Cohen Report hit the Boston newspapers, Volpe told the press that he had "definite evidence" that the sit-in was "part of a nationwide conspiracy to disrupt the public welfare system and to force us to bend whatever they have in mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 40 Facing Trial in Boston Today For State House Welfare Sit-in | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...slowly turning over in the air because you've forgotten about counting and about maintaining aerodynamic form as your mind gropes amongst all that it has ever seen for an explanation...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...white landscape slides irrelevantly back and forth into view like an askew plane in space. You expected beforehand to have a feeling of neat perpendicularity towards the land you were falling to. But as you fall, your mind isn't aware of any geometrical relationship to the ground; it relates only to the airplane...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

Quite apart from your mind, however, your bowels, as your center of gravity, have this extreme feeling of weightfulness. Your body tingles with the speed and your toes want to crawl back upwards away from the deep magenta...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

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