Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading toward New York, the train began to snowball. At each stop it picked up new carloads. By the end of the second day, it had more than tripled in size. The Friendship Train was not Chuck Luckman's idea. It had been born in the mind of Columnist Drew Pearson as a good-will gesture from the people of the U.S. to the people of Europe. But it would help Luckman's program indirectly...
...take Chuck Luckman long to make up his mind. It had become increasingly evident that eggless and poultryless days were pulling in opposite directions. As long as poultrymen could not sell their chickens (whose eggs were not wanted), they had simply held on to them-and fed them. Wriggling gratefully off the spot, Luckman announced that the nation could have chicken every Thursday, so long as Thursday was eggless...
With 1948 firmly in mind, leaders of both major parties cocked a hopeful eye toward last week's elections. The Democrats, still smarting from their 1946 walloping, were quick to see the beginning of a Democratic boom in the election of Earle C. Clements as governor of Kentucky. The Republicans counter-shouted that throughout the nation they had held the line and consolidated last year's gains. The plain facts of local politics deflated the rodomontades of both sides...
...excellent survey of a period vastly underrated in popular history, Mr. Devote's greatest contribution lies in his analysis of true pioneers. The mountain men, the visionary merchants doomed to failure, and the Indians were components of a complex society that influenced the formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport to a raw life that revolved around beaver, whiskey...
...life during the '50s and '60s. The Civil War itself plays no role in his book except insofar as it impinges on Whitman's personal development. In his eagerness to recreate the fragrance and colors of the past, Brooks impatiently skips those struggles of the mind and body that comprised its substance. There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln's world-shaking ideas; more about Joaquin Miller's escapades than Melville's struggles with the ultimates of morality...