Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facile speaker and hard worker,with a keenly analytical mind, Steinhardt likes to keep his finger on every last detail. He will have it easier in Ottawa. But his service in Ottawa might be brief. Should a Republican Administration take over next January, Steinhardt would follow tradition and offer his resignation. As a good Democrat he could be pretty sure that it would be accepted...
...made more than $2,000,000 and spent most of it. He once confessed: "I lost $35,000 on one horse race alone." Ban Johnson, late president of the American League once said with asperity but accuracy: "Ruth has the mind of a 15-year-old boy." The Babe couldn't-even remember the names of his teammates. He greeted everybody, old or young, with his famed welcome: "Hello...
...chances to survive the operation were only one in 1,000. The father's lawyer said one in 100. The puzzled judge asked the deans of four Chicago medical schools to investigate and give him a report. Before the deans could act, Mrs. Lamphere changed her mind. Convincer: 19-month-old Christine Ulrich, who survived a similar operation, looks fine...
...driver was paying to the road (he had been shown waving to friends). Donaldson's lawyer got a girl witness so mixed up during cross-examination that she began sobbing "I don't know" to questions she had already answered with assurance. Driver Donaldson's mind went completely blank when he finally reached the witness stand, and he wasn't playacting. Said the professor: "A perfect example of retrograde amnesia...
When the phrase "flower of England" was used to describe the young English dead in World War I, the name of Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord...