Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actually in the grip of a Red hysteria? New York Times correspondents across the U.S. reported on the state of the public mind. Most people seemed to want Communist espionage and infiltration searched out and exposed. But they also wanted it done by due process, and without some of the loudmouthed and irresponsible accusations that had gone with...
...farm plan, which, to hear them tell it, would give the farmer a high income, the consumer low food prices, and the taxpayer practically no pain at all (TIME, April 18). There was almost no chance of its passing Congress this session, but the Democratic faithful didn't mind too much: they decided to make Brannan's dream scheme the major campaign issue of the 1950 congressional elections. Brannan had staked his own future on it and knew it. Said he: "For me, it'll mean either a palace or a backhouse...
After that Judy saw the Russian six times. He bought her dinners, took hef rowing in Central Park. On Christmas she gave him some Toll House cookies. Said Archie: "Now tell the jury how he impressed your female heart and mind . . ." Judy had found him charming, sensitive. She added, with a quaver, "I thought I was in love with...
...grey topper, and started a fashion that slowly took hold. In 1791 there was a celebrated running of the Oatlands stakes at Ascot. Baronet, owned by the Prince of Wales (later George the Fourth), won the race after London had gone almost out of its collective mind over the event. An estimated ?500,000 changed hands in bets, and the Prince picked up ?17,000 in wagers...
...never reads the sport pages before a race. But he could not help knowing that the East had a challenger for his championship, a lanky Negro lad named Andy Stanfield, from Seton Hall College (N.J.). The night before the N.C.A.A. championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before he set out for Los Angeles' Olympic Coliseum last week...