Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chances for a tax bill this year looked very slim. Main reason for the delay: Congressional GOPsters, quietly abetted by many a vote-minded Democrat, staged a revolt. The revolt turned into a coup. By week's end Congress seemed agreed: no economy in the Administration, no tax bill...
Outside his administration, Dewey has three close advisers whom he consults frequently: George Zerdin Medalie, Jewish philanthropist who, as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, gave Dewey his start in public life; Herbert Brownell, Manhattan lawyer, onetime leading liberal in the State Legislature; John Foster Dulles, an...
The engineers called their decision the most "momentous" in the Society's 91-year history. Their reasons: "If the professionally-minded engineer is not prepared to bargain collectively through representatives of his own choosing, collective bargaining will be done for him by representatives selected by an organization with which...
OWI has received more & more queries from matrimonially minded women ("Would I enjoy living in Kansas?") and others startled by the love-making of far-from-home U.S. soldiers ("When I go out with an English boy, he might want to kiss me, but . .. the American soldier!").
Of balladry, Kipling was an unsurpassable modern master. Eliot points out "his singleness of intention in attempting to convey no more to the simple minded than can be taken in on one reading or hearing," points out further his virtuosity at carrying out and varying this intention: "There is no...