Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"This amendment read: 'Incumbent officials may not be elected to the National Assembly.' It had been slipped in neatly at the previous session, catching responsible leadership unawares. It was a strike by little politicians against the big bureaucrats, more spiteful than high-minded, for it would disqualify some...
"A Report from the World" is a notable milestone of the Cleveland Council as a community influence. Per man, woman & child, the nation's sixth city has become its most international-minded. Cleveland's Council now has almost 4,000 members, of whom half are men. The year...
Modest, young (39) Adolfo Drive Alba, the new minister, seemed just the man for the job of spending it. A serious-minded crusader who specialized in hydraulic engineering at the University of Mexico and had thought of practically nothing else since, Orive Alba was a top example of the nonpolitical...
The worst bogey haunting U.S. laboratories is the fear of narrow-minded military domination. The next worst is the fear that government funds will be granted chiefly to shortrange, "practical" projects.
Literal-minded cinemagoers need not be alarmed when fantasy creeps into the tale. Fantasy or not, this movie is twice as lifelike as most Hollywood whimsies which are offered with straight faces as slices of reality. "I wish," mourns Jimmy, "I'd never been born." He gets his wish...