Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not shake the fear that he might never recover completely. After his death, attendants found evidence of the lonely struggle of his wounded mind: a book, opened to Sophocles' "Chorus from Ajax," lay beside his bed. He had been reading...
...eighth-floor U.S. embassy office in Buenos Aires' Boston Bank building, the telephone jangled. "Never mind the protocol," boomed the voice of Juan Perón, "come on over." After three months in Washington, big, breezy U.S. Ambassador James Bruce was back at his post. In answer to Perón's call, he put other business aside, walked the four blocks to the Casa Rosada for a hearty abrazo and a long talk with Argentina's President. In the next two days, he saw most of the country's cabinet ministers, called twice on Foreign...
...investigation proposes to clear up such ambiguities. There will be some difficulty in clarifying the issue of identifying lobbies. Nevertheless Congress is determined to have a mind of its own, and the proposal augurs well the achieving of this...
Early this year, Harold J. Laski, professor at the London School of Economics, scheduled two speeches at the University of California. One speech was to be made at Berkeley, the other at the Los Angeles campus. Laski later changed his mind and decided to speak twice at the southern school...
...California legislature is considering five "loyalty oath" bills, and a measure to make it a misdemeanor "to teach any system or plan of government except the American system upon any state school property or to inculcate preference in the mind of any pupil for any such system...