Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprisingly large number of American schools rallied to the N.S.A. ideal. They guided the stripling organization through conferences and preparatory meetings. Presenting its own mind, its own officers and its own mind, it today stands on its own feet. Drifting far away from the Continent, N.S.A. intends to affiliate with the Soviet-oriented international unit for its "service" functions only, maintaining clear autonomy from the union's political hijinks...
These words, spoken by the disciples at Emmaus, rang in the mind of the Rev. Henry Francis Lyte. All his life long the gentle English Methodist had hoped to leave something behind him to testify to the glory of God. Though his books of poems* were well enough received, Lyte feared that they would not long survive him. In 1847, when he was 54, he felt that his life was almost over. Consumption and asthma, from which he had suffered for more than half his years, would not leave him much more time...
Coach Stiner says that his quarterback on the field doesn't mind having instructions arrive by special messenger: "He's so busy blocking, or carrying the ball." Two weeks ago, against Stanford, Oregon State's press-coop quarterback directed three offensive drives, two of which resulted in touchdowns. Last week, Oregon State did not have the quarterbacking that U.C.L.A. had, nor the team. Score: U.C.L.A. 27, Oregon State...
Once, asked to omit stories exploiting the grief of bereaved families, the Mirror declined in terms that capsuled the Bartholomew credo: "Are editors to be asked to say that this or that is not nice news? ... A news editor with that type of mind would be like a general with a conscientious objection to killing. . . . The London press is already too niminy piminy." When other British national papers were niminy piminy about the story of Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Mirror broke...
...live together without living together. Before uniting them legally at the final curtain, Playwright Herbert keeps them apart a bit lewdly for almost three acts. He manages to squeeze a few amusing moments out of their immaculate proximity by shamelessly tossing in anything, apt or alien, that comes to mind...