Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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'. . . The people here are Burgundians, beautiful, proud, strong, and quite contemptuous of the ignorant American soldier who is of the opinion that every French girl is a harlot and should be treated as such. . . . We have completely misunderstood French morals and mores and they ours. We Americans are essentially...
Man at Work. The President had had another busy week, and he had zipped through it in the decisive style that is now recognized as typically Truman. In one terse, five-minute press conference (see PRESS), he made the week's biggest news. He made his first appointment to...
The House committee listened to the recital of this overwhelming array without batting an eye. Not so the Navy's flyers. Air-minded sailors of every rank groaned, "Ernie King and the battleship boys have won again." There were too many King-sized ships (i.e., battlewagons) in the deal...
From this point on, it is high-octane cops & robbers, ending with a slam-bang fist fight and a breakneck chase as the Major, Abby and the scientist dash for the water's edge and a waiting British submarine. In a simple-minded way, it is good, fast fun...
The atomic bomb, said Brandt, "has proved there is no such thing as the absent-minded professor. When the scholar decided to turn over to the Government his knowledge of the atom, he at once assumed responsibility for the kind of Government which would use the atomic bomb. And since...