Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact, he had. He had been turning over an idea in his mind ever since last summer. At that time Air Secretary Stuart Symington had suggested that the way to handle the Russian crisis was to send Dwight Eisenhower over to talk with Stalin. That suggestion was dropped, but Clifford remembered it. He also remembered how the President had broken a deadlock over voting procedure in U.N. by sending Harry Hopkins to Moscow. From a political point of view, Eisenhower was probably not a very good choice for such a job now. But why not send Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
Politics or Business? On his instructions, Press Secretary Charlie Ross summoned officials of the four radio networks to the White House one day last week and asked for air time for that night. Having in mind the rules of the campaign, the network officials asked: "Is this political or is it Government business?" Government business, said Ross. When they looked skeptical, Ross swore them to secrecy and told them of the President's idea. They went away to think it over...
...blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...
...somewhat frightening to Novelist Joseph Stanley Pennell, whose History of Rome Hanks stirred up violent opinions in 1944. "Naturally I hope my new book, Nora Beckham, will have as much success as my first," he confided to Reporter Jim Goodsell for the Portland Oregonian. "But I won't mind if it creates less of a tempest. It was a little unnerving to be compared, all in one week, with Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Judas Iscariot...
...sculptor's restless mind was bound to lead him into new ways of expression. He moved to Manhattan and took it by storm in 1917 with an exhibition of a totally different kind: a roomful of carved comments on modern life. Now Nadelman's slimmed-down Venuses did high kicks, his Jupiters wore boiled shirts and derby hats, his Muses played the piano. Critic Henry McBride described the show as "culture to the breaking point." It all but sold...