Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about time we taught our children how to live. . . . A kid comes to school with a fresh, clean mind and an all-consuming desire to find out what life is all about. . . . [But we] accuse him of criminality for daring to be interested in some of the things which life is more about than anything else...
...however unsympathetic they might be toward Isacson's foreign policy views, were disturbed at this infringement of their right to go anywhere and investigate anything. If one Congressman could be forbidden a passport, so could others. Besides, if any citizen of the U.S. had freedom to speak his mind at home, why should he be denied the same freedom in Europe? Congressmen were not alone in thinking that the State Department, instead of using its passport power to curb its critics, would do well to label them properly and let them talk their heads...
...admirers say he is solid, patient, dependable, an able, incorruptible administrator who has built up enormous public faith in his honesty and political integrity, a sound planner with a painstaking mind and tremendous capacity for work, a good organizer, born leader and proved vote-getter, who has earned the support of both major parties in state elections...
...trouble. To most Americans, "food" is a word that carries little meaning, in these times compared with such words as "liberty" and "peace," or "communism" and "democracy." But in much of the rest of the world, the idea of "let's eat" is the dominant thought in the mind of every human being. When a man's food consumption averages 1,150 calories daily, he is not likely to be a communist or a democrat or an advocate of free speech. He is likely to be nothing but a hungry...
...which administers both schools, said, "The need for medical and dental practioners and research specialists is such that we are determined to keep our opportunities for education in these fields open to able men from all economic levels and from all parts of the country. With that aim in mind, we have given careful thought in our new program to scholarships and loans. Funds available for scholarships will be more than doubled next year...