Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anderson clomped a heavy foot on the brake. At a press conference in Chicago, tactless Clint Anderson casually dismissed meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays as just "symbols of sacrifice." They were not intended "primarily to save food themselves," he said, but "to get the public in the frame of mind to conserve food." It was "like going to church on Sunday. . . . It's a reminder...
...possible for you, for any reason, to keep Mr. Wallace [then Secretary of Commerce] . . . from speaking on foreign affairs ... if it is not completely clear in your own mind that Mr. Wallace should be asked to refrain from criticizing the foreign policy of the United States while he is a member of your Cabinet, I must ask you to accept my resignation...
...unlimited patience as well as a fine mind and tremendous energy. Any exhibition of impatience or bad temper by others gives him amusement. At such times it is interesting to watch his serious, solemn expression as he protests his innocence of any provocation." Molotov was a stickler for procedure. His favorite word was: "Nyet" ("No"), which Byrnes heard so often "I almost accept it as part of my own language. He can say in English, 'I agree,' but so seldom does he agree that his pronunciation isn't very good...
...more likely, in my opinion, being used for internal purposes. If there are only 14 men all eyeing one another, deeply conscious of the enormous population they hold in chains of mind and spirit, enforced by terror, it may well be that they think it pays them and helps them to perpetuate their rule by representing to the otherwise blindfolded masses of the brave and goodhearted Russian people that the Soviet Government stands between them and a repetition of the horrors of invasion which they withstood, when it came, so manfully...
Much valuable psychopthic material has been provided for Ph.D. theses on the reaction of the human mind and hand to the printed page. Some people, it has been discovered, read backwards. A few rare specimens are prompted to write backwards in the text they are perusing...