Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generally speaking, are you in favor of the idea of a Western European Union, against the idea, or haven't you made up your mind about...
THAT COULD BE SAID, and said again; yet nobody could keep his mind on the Marshall Plan and the Italian elections all the time. There were other preoccupying concerns...
...attacking the vicar, then Canon Desmond Lloyd Wilson, for shooting at birds. Within a few months the letters had driven him from Robin Hood's Bay. His successor, too, resigned under a barrage of anonymous scurrility. One later incumbent of Saint Stephen's got more peace of mind; his wife, without his knowledge, intercepted anonymous letters which arrived for him each week...
Standard Classic Maurice (The Blue Bird) Maeterlinck, who filed suit against Dodd, Mead & Co., publishers, for $250,000 last summer (complaining that they had failed to publish and promote him properly), changed his mind, dropped the whole thing...
...having sweated through his first telecast (TIME, March 29), decided to call off the second one. It was too hot under those lights, he complained. Howls of dismay from disappointed televiewers (and NBC's promise to turn up the studio cooling system) changed the old maestro's mind. At concert time, he appeared with no vest, breezed through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for a fitting finish to his tenth season with...