Word: minded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student said, "since that would become an obsession, but the fact that they left it hanging in the air made you pretty angry sometimes." Otherwise, there were no criticisms of McLean as an institution, with one exception. The student who spent the most time in hospitals and whose mind made the most harrowing trips complained that he was "vegetablized" by tranquilizers. But his experiences elsewhere suggest that his objections with McLean were primarily reflections of his state of mind at the time...
...extreme case. For the rest of the students interviewed, the stay in the hospital was a slow journey into the recesses of the mind. Some of them felt a massive relief on entering McLean. "Before I got to the hospital," one said, "I was constantly confronted with the accusation that I was losing my mind. The people around me could not understand actions that seemed perfectly rational to me. They wanted me to be like them, but I couldn't. I was split in two by an insoluble conflict, and I became suspicious of everyone. I always had to conceal...
Another glimpse of Faustus's inner nightmare comes when three of his students visit him an hour before he is due to go down to hell. They look shy and callow, out of it, as he stands talking about hell--which has been in Faustus's mind every day now for 24 years...
...contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful," wired Captain John Herrick, commander of the patrol. "Freak weather effects and overeager sonarman may have accounted for many reports. No actual visual sightings by Maddox, suggest complete evaluation before any further action." With access to classified information, Herrick has since changed his mind. McNamara says that he has "unimpeachable" intelligence, probably intercepted North Vietnamese radio messages, to verify independently not only that Hanoi planned an attack on the U.S. destroyers but also that it was informed of the battle's progress...
...YOUR President--and we want to keep in mind that he's the only one you've got--is happy to report that the Communists failed to capture the American embassy in Saigon. Armed with the knowledge gained from the Pueblo maneuver, our officials managed to blow up the embassy before it could fall into enemy hands. The leg injuries sustained by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker are not believed to be serious...