Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what was happening. It reported at first that its country had been invaded by a large organized force from the north. Some of the Athens communiqués sounded like war, some merely like more guerrilla fighting in Epirus. Whatever was going on, the U.S. Government made up its mind to prevent 1) a Communist overthrow of the Greek Government, or 2) establishment of a separate Communist stooge-state...
...departure made it almost certain that Harry Truman would pick for the new Cabinet post an early foe of unification who had changed his mind last winter, when the Army withdrew its insistence on a single military commander. The man: Navy Secretary James Forrestal. The best bets to fill two of the new subordinate secretaryships: for Air, Yaleman W. Stuart Symington, now Assistant Secretary of War for Air, socialite, industrialist and son-in-law of New York's military-wise Congressman James W. Wadsworth; for Navy, handsome Under Secretary John L. Sullivan, New Hampshire lawyer and faithful Democrat...
Once a year, Portinari returns to the village of Brodowsky, where his father & mother still live. There he stays for several months, storing his mind with fresh images of the poverty-worn Negro and mulatto coffeeworkers among the red-brown hills. When he came back from Paris last December, he started a series of sad pictures and a series of happy pictures. "But now I don't feel so much like painting happy pictures. I feel more like sad pictures...
With Tiger, the Flames started burning brighter. Haynes jots down phrases that he says come to him in his dreams. His latest, already made into a song: Ya Ess Goony Gress. On stage, the Flames seem to be amusing each other, and don't seem to mind if the audience listens...
Sister Sadie Neale is not worried about the atom bomb. Her mind is on more important things-the great days of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, whom the "world's people" call Shakers...