Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Muscle Memory. The first day Ben fired a 67 (four under par) and was tied for the lead. The tension seemed to sharpen rather than scuttle his game ("Keeps me awake"). Carefully, before each shot, he went over it in his mind, a trick to get "the tempo" of the stroke, in effect making the shot before he hit the ball. He calls it "muscle memory...
There is no magic like that of Ireland, There are no skies like Irish skies, There is no air like Irish air, The Irish climate will make the stiffest and slowest mind flexible jor life...
...Then I said, 'Mr. President, I would send for Harry Woodring and I would say to him, "Harry, it is either Dublin, Ireland, for you, or Topeka, Kansas."' The President looked at me, somewhat abashed. Reading his mind, I said, 'You can't do that sort of thing, can you, Mr. President...
...most important news out of London this week was that a six-power conference had at last made up its mind about Germany...
...little-known militarists of a President-General who could be confused with no one else in history. With a superb sense of showmanship and a keen perception of the old Hitlerian formula that nonsense begins to make sense if repeated often enough, the President has been molding the public mind to consider him as the economic emancipator of Argentina, even as San Martin was its political emancipator. The fact that Argentina is undergoing one of the worst financial crises of its history has not yet detracted from his luster...