Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faith that is so firmly held cannot be combated on political or diplomatic levels, thinks Clifford: "Capitalism is feverishly trying to save itself by half-converting itself into Socialism. . . . Bombs are . . . irrelevant, for Communism is a thing of the mind . . . and not just a move in power politics. . . . The only really relevant thing is another faith - a positive and constructive faith with the power to seize on men's minds...
...Congress has shown no great enthusiasm for the vast loans or grants with which the Administration wants to do the job. But a drop in exports may cause it to change its mind. The drop is not far off. Last week, Brazil and Argentina got ready to cut their U.S. imports. Canada is seeking means to do the same. Britain is surveying all its imports with an eye to slashing them about $800 million a year; any cuts it makes will be deepest on imports from...
...spoke for the majority. His is one ample reason why the regular sessions of Congress have never been broadcast. Thus far, only special sessions and important committee meetings have gone on the air. But according to a poll last week, in Pageant magazine, Congress is beginning to change its mind. After sampling the views of some 70 legislators, Pollster J. H. Pollock reported that 61% of them were quite willing to have microphones at their benches; only 33% were opposed; 6% were still mulling it over...
...enjoy the traditional tranquillity of Victorian rural England, but who reached an individualistic maturity during the disordered years between two wars. It is in this respect that his autobiography makes good reading-for Read shuns sensational confessions and concentrates on the varying influences that left their marks on his mind...
...early marks were of a kind to turn the mind of a boy to romantic poetry -the rare sound of a horse's hoofs clopping past his father's lonely farm at night, the screaming, exotic peacocks at the neighboring manor house, the 1,200-year-old parish church that still bore, on the sundial over its porch, the Saxon inscription: THIS IS DÆGES SOL MERCA ÆT ILCVMTIDE (This is the day's sun mark at every tide). And when Read was nine years old, a glass jar filled with "black, blind and sinister...