Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bang. Near La Specia, Italy, despondent Adele Coppola decided to end it all, hopped up & down in an uncleared German minefield for 30 minutes without results, finally changed her mind and decided to go home and live...
...that makes the future of the Salzburg Seminar look bright. What the original planners had in mind as far as permanence goes is anybody's guess, but right now they are hoping to make Leopoldskron a fixture--a center for American studies in Europe. To achieve this newest goal they will need money--and their next job will be to convince some of the larger foundations in the United States of their worthiness. If the heads of those foundations would come here and feel for only a few days the spirit of this seminar, convincing would not be necessary...
...attract a crowd otherwise. Everyone would get out there and cheer louder than he ever had before, because of the approaching excitement; that was pretty good, and Vag walked jauntily: soon they'd call him Machiavel Vag. He could see the crowd shouting, Harvard men shouting, for in his mind they would have the cherished prize of...of.., sure, Memorial Hall. Mem Hall, the perfect prize. Vag chuckled softly, and started to hurry back, for it was still Reading Period...
...from a punctured balloon. "Attlee missed the chance of a lifetime," said a furniture maker. "We know we are in a tough spot, so it's up to. him to take tough action. We would back him all right." Said a salesman: "Attlee's a good man, mind you, but we want more than that-someone with go in him." Many a Briton still agreed with the junior minister who said recently: "The sands are running out and our heads are still buried in them...
...took Hollywood no time at all to make up its mind. Less than 24 hours after Britain's Government levied a new tax which, in effect, will take 75% of the gross earnings of U.S. films, Movie Czar Eric Johnston announced that Britain would get no more of them. Cinemoguls, meeting in a 3½-hour session with Johnston, angrily charged that the tax was confiscatory. "If the British want American pictures," said Johnston, "they shouldn't expect to get a dollar's worth for a quarter...