Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Commission's function was to coordinate individual policies of the occupying powers in these and other matters. But, practical-minded as the Commission members might be, it would be difficult to coordinate the policies until they had been mutually disclosed.
At his headquarters on a Guam hilltop, Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay added up the results of three months' massive B-29 attacks on Tokyo. Tough-minded, realistic Curt LeMay claimed nothing of which he could not be sure. The things of which he could be sure:
This much was already on the record: Ozawa was tough and aggressive, but above all he was air-minded - for 25 years he had boosted the cause of Japanese naval aviation. Tokyo itself supplied another reason why Ozawa was chosen: he had "thoroughly familiarized himself with surface special-attack [i.e...
Thrill of a Romance (M.G.M.), which is a gently feeble-minded title, suits the action to the words. The main thrill for bobby-soxers and stylish stouts is rosy Van Johnson, a sort of air-conditioned Charles Ray, whose boyish charm is honest and home-cooked enough to keep the...
Snigeroff's Nose. Drunkenness was regarded as an affliction rather than a misdemeanor. Nobody except Helen minded the endless consumption of a beverage brewed by "tossing sugar, flour and yeast-and sometimes a handful of rice or half-rotten fruit-into a dirty butter barrel" filled with water and...