Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singing America. One, a freckle-faced twelve-year-old boy, stepped forward to present a scrapbook about the base's school. After a brave start, the boy flubbed his long-rehearsed speech. Harry Truman, who knows how it feels to stumble over lines, leaned down and whispered: "Never mind, son." The boy beamed...
...mind...
...revealing peek at the whirring gears of the bureaucratic mind, the Information Bulletin of the U.S. Military Government in Germany (OMGUS) solemnly totted up the abbreviations in common usage among occupation forces in Germany. From AACS (Airways and Air Communication Service) to ZVL (German central movements directorate), the compendium plodded through 581 separate items. Samples: BE (British Element), CROWCASS (Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects), GMZFO (Military Government of the French Zone of Occupation), PUP (Public Utilities Panel), WAGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Scouts...
...Duchess of Valencia, who speaks her monarchist mind in public, was out about $45,000. That was the latest fine levied against her by the Franco cabinet. The duchess, a dark-eyed beauty who was once fined for making monarchist noises in a tea shop, was charged this time with inciting a college-boy rebellion...
Mantle-just the opposite of fiscal. Something to do with the mind...