Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together, of looking at their problems as common European problems. They are getting in the habit of having their economic plans criticized, and of criticizing those of other countries, and of working those separate plans into a common program. They are working as Europeans, with but one thought in mind: the economic recovery and economic unity and the well-being of Europe as a whole...
Thomas Finletter, 55, a Philadelphia-born Wall Street lawyer (son and grandson of judges) with a trigger-quick mind, served as ECA's chief in Britain. Reticent, hardheaded and caustic-humored, Finletter has been called "the little acid drop." The British did not mind his sharpness. Said one appreciative Whitehaller, lifting his eyes to the ceiling: "If only all the people we had to deal with were like Finletter...
...first Mrs. H. read every message. But after three days, she changed her mind; some letters were spiteful and upsetting. By week's end, Mrs. H. had taken refuge in a hideaway-and Reporter Patrick had moved into a friend's apartment, to get some peace from the telephone...
...Conservative Bernard Karfiol argued that "a painting should be seen through the innate feeling eye rather than the literary scientific mind . . . For me, Nature in all its elements provides the essentials...
...Keep your eyes clean and your ears quiet and your mind serene...