Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft battled the invader with grim and obstinate resolution. Taft workers distributed his literature outside Stassen rallies. They tracked the Minnesotan everywhere, took down his every word and stood up in his meetings to ask questions which had obviously sprung from Taft's precise legal mind...
...Gallup the two most important things in the world are: 1) facts and 2) the basic good sense of the U.S. people. No philosopher, he has a mind that refracts facts rather than absorbs them. But he has a Jeffersonian view of the importance of the people's voice. It is a constant source of irritation to him that the sports page, with its box scores and summaries, its racing charts and batting averages, does for sports what Gallup wants to do for all of the U.S. "Everything is reduced to facts and figures but the things that count...
Henry Agard Wallace, whose much-publicized project for planting corn on the tiny lawn of his Park Avenue headquarters struck a lot of people as right off the cob, changed his mind. He settled for gladioli, and set foot to spade for photographers...
...line was first printed: 'I must go down,' etc.," he said. "After about 20 years I altered this to 'I must down,' etc. But after about another 20 years I repented and put 'go' back. And now, alas, I cannot make up my mind...
...This lends me an air of movement, or rather of life," Sabartés had answered. "Here you have me now before your eyes, and surely you do not mind seeing me from both one side and the other . . ." "But, how about the glasses?" "That's something else . . . Picasso didn't even notice that he was painting them upside down...