Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westbrook Pegler was on the receiving end of a blast. Representative Arthur G. Klein (Dem., N.Y.) cried that such "scatological skill . . . could spring only from a sick mind." Klein urged the formation of the Westbrook Pegler Annual Award of Journalistic Infamy, with the nomination committee to include the poundmaster and chief plumbing inspector of the District of Columbia, and the prize plaque to be "a rectangular shield transversed by a double cross, surmounted by a turkey buzzard . . . with jackal couchant in the left upper quarter and the symbolic figures of Truth and Decency outraged supine in the lower right quarter...
...changed the hutukhtu's mind and brought him to Baltimore was Owen Lattimore, director of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University. Asia Specialist Lattimore had met him once in China, and had been corresponding with him ever since...
...Yale, basketball used to be considered something better left to Y.M.C.A.s and volunteer fire departments. Until 1937, when Yale changed its mind, basketball lettermen had to be content with a two-inch minor-sport "Y" instead of five-inchers given to crewmen, footballers, baseballers and trackmen. Even after basketball became a major sport, Yalemen refused to get worked up about the game -until Tony Lavelli of Somerville, Mass, came along...
...delicate repolishing of its outer ten inches. The great telescope will not start on its real program of charting the outer universe until it is as perfect as scientific skill can make it. The world's astronomers, impatient for news from a billion light-years away, do not mind waiting a little longer...
...tries to justify a large fee, or builds up his own importance in the patient's eyes by talking of the difficulty of the operation and how his experience and skill will be needed . . ." Unfortunately, the operation's danger is what sticks in the patient's mind...