Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first place, it is representative of what the mind of man has accomplished this past year...
Anyone who wanders into "Unconquered" with a completely blank mind will come out refreshed, and imbued with the feeling that as long as Gary Coopers are around, America cannot fail. Later it will dawn on him he has just witnessed the greatest Technicolor carload of DcMille hokum yet produced. Settlers and Indians battle in this latest epic from the master of the crowd scene, which has hero Cooper rubbing elbows with George Washington, Mason and Dixon, Richard Henry Lee, and a host of other non-controversial historical figures...
...there was more than romance on Michael's mind. From the day of his arrival in London he had been holding high level talks about his job in Bucharest. The Rumanian Communists' power grab was complete, and Michael, king in a Communist-dominated country, had become a royal cipher. The stunned immobility with which Rumanians watched their beloved National Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu be crushed under Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker's steamroller told Michael he had not long to reign-even as Pauker's virtual prisoner...
...smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind...
...necessary for you to believe that I deserve what I get. It doesn't enter your mind, does it-that a man might not be able to help being hammered down? . . . And do you know what? It's a Jewish point of view. You'll find it all over the Bible. God doesn't make mistakes. He's the department of weights and measures. If you're okay, he's okay, too. That's what Job's friends come and say to him. But I'll tell you something...