Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since he was a boy, and he had lifted the museums' rarities to add to his own collection of 40,000 butterflies. The judge let him off easy (a ?100 fine); he understood "the distraction of your mind" that had led Wyatt to a crime of passion...
...Guarantee management's right to speak its mind in a labor dispute so long as management does not threaten reprisals...
Surplus Silk. U.S.C.C. has already badly snarled Japan's exports of raw silk by paying no attention to the fickle taste of U.S. women. After five silkless years, they had learned to like Nylon better than silk in stockings, slips and girdles. Nor did U.S.C.C. mind its economic law. The first silk shipments sold at an average of $9.79 a pound. But as more silk came into the U.S. the auction price skidded until it hit $4.70 last February. Manufacturers who had been caught in the falling market stopped buying. To protect them, U.S.C.C. pegged the price average...
...chairs, on the egg-yolk-yellow couch, on the floor, looking at one another and at souvenir ashtrays and an Album of the New York World's Fair." When they were settled, Grandpa Kingsblood informed them in a trembling voice that his son Neil had something on his mind "which he will now confess...
...Britain after a five-month U.S. vacation were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, who would presently push on to the south of France for a vacation. Might the Duke be looking for a job? asked a reporter. "Well, I might some time, but I have nothing definite in mind," replied the Duke. "I never take life easy," he added. "I never have and I never shall...