Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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To most Americans the names of at least two of the Skipper's three mates meant little. (Sam Rosenman was well known as F.D.R.'s wordsmith.) But, in influence, they were among the most important people in the U.S. Along with grey, cautious Leslie L. Biffle, Secretary of...
Economics had made strange bedfellows; neither Empire-minded diehards nor planned-economy socialists wanted to accept a loan which would limit Britain's economic independence by tying her to the vagaries of U.S. capitalism. (On the related issue of ratification of the Bretton Woods monetary agreements, the House vote...
Alternating Georgina's mental balloon ascensions (murderess on trial for her life, high-minded mother of twins, poison-swallowing streetwalker, emergency Portia triumphing in The Merchant of Venice) with her muddled, mundane romances, Dream Girl shoots at nothing much higher than fun. For the first third of Georgina'...
"I am very critically minded as far as the Soviet Union is concerned. As long as the Russians think it is right to conquer a neighbor's territory, such as Karelia [once Finnish], but do not permit Germany to make conquests, I cannot collaborate with them. One cannot treat...
Before the Pearl Harbor Committee last week, Cordell Hull was asked what he thought about this sentence. His tired voice scarcely rose but the words crackled ominously: "If I could express myself as I would like, I would want all of you religious-minded persons to retire from the room...