Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordeal of Mr. Sigler. The Michigan delegation sat in indecision and suspense, looking to Sigler and National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield for advice. They began waving their hands at Sigler, who stood like a man transfixed. He had only minutes to make up his mind. Connecticut was ready to break for Dewey. Where the hell was Baldwin, so Sigler could talk to him? Trapped in a pack of sweating pages, newsmen, photographers and delegates crowding the aisles, Sigler could not move. James Powers, a Michigan delegate and Detroit auto dealer, grabbed Sigler's arm and shouted...
Suddenly, Sigler seemed to make up his mind. He fought his way toward the platform. Connecticut's Baldwin finally showed up from somewhere in the pack around the Michigan delegation. "I don't want to do it," he was saying. "But there's a strong feeling in my delegation for Dewey." The floor was in a minor uproar...
...swamps of Central Luzon to see whether the government would go ahead with the land redistribution the Huks demanded. In his maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender' is poison to the crystal cup of better relations...
...correct when white folks were around. But when with his own people, he liked to whoop it up. Wherever he went, he was followed by cronies-who admired him and split up what money there was in his wallet if it was lying around handy. Joe didn't mind. He never quibbled about a few hundred dollars; he never ducked an opponent. He has defended his title 25 times (more than any champion before him) and scored 22 knockouts...
...admirers crowded around his car. They kept him prisoner at the curb for half an hour. Then they tore off the car hood, broke the windows, ripped off the tires, danced on the car roof. It took a balcony speech from Joe to disperse them. Joe didn't mind the damage much; he had earned an estimated $413,000 that night...