Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life with him, and I refuse to have a temporary marriage just to be able to give birth to a legitimate child. So I'm trapped. There's nowhere to turn. If I can't get an abortion legally and decently, I'll go out of my mind." The glib lay phrase "go out of my mind" by itself would not have im-pressed the psychiatrist, but in this case he was convinced that pregnancy and childbirth might be enough to precipitate severe mental illness...
...game is so complete that he often forgets to eat and has to get vitamin injections from the Rams' doctor. During the season, he practically survives on ice cream, which he eats, says his wife, "because he doesn't have to chew it. Chewing would take his mind off football...
...these volumes, it is the nonpolitical pieces, diaries, letters and odd bits on diverse subjects that most hold the mind. Orwell was a classic Englishman, full of quirks. This shines through every line he wrote, whether on the puzzling sex life of the common toad who "salutes the coming of spring [and] after his long fast, has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent," or on the "modern habit of some writers who describe lovemaking in detail. . .It is something that future generations will look back on as we do on things like...
...gunmen of the GPU. He had fought against Franco in Spain, but with the wrong mob-the semi-anarchist POUM instead of the Stalinist-sponsored International Brigade. Back in London, he had found himself nudged into near oblivion by the fellow-traveling leftist press. Such experiences toughened his mind and help to explain his standing with today's young left. He was untainted either by success or by the envy and rancor that marks the "liberal" who is merely a power worshiper out of power...
...time. The cop tells the father that Paul was one of the assailants, but pop is indignant, defending his son to the death. My son was chasing after them, he says, trying to protect my money. No, the cop says, your son is a crook. Pop immediately changes his mind and turns on his son and tries to kill him. In other words, Pop goes from love to hate in thirty seconds. Almost, but not quite, Mr. Hoye. In five minutes you might have done...