Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then he gave the defense two more days to wind up its challenge, announced that he would tolerate no oral arguments after that, and made it plain that he would overrule the defense unless it changed his mind in the meantime-an eventuality he obviously did not anticipate. Said he: "I thought at one time that perhaps the defense had something...
...must die, what are you dying for?' an absolutely black vacuity suddenly rises before you with startling vividness. There was nothing to die for if one wanted to die unrepented. And . . . everything positive that glistens in the Soviet Union acquires new dimensions in a man's mind...
Sometimes, the going may get tough. John Bull must hold in mind the merit of the reply courteous, a point best made by Lord Halifax, whose answer to an egg barrage in Detroit was, "How lucky you are to have eggs to throw." Cheke's concluding advice: "Above all, Mr. and Mrs. Bull should school themselves and remain masters of their tempers...
...auditorium was already filled when he walked on stage, Mr. Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, said that his main purpose was not to introduce the Sitwells as much as to talk until all latecomers had been seated. And to put the audience in the proper frame of mind for hearing poetry read, he said...
...McKay did not envision the early development of an Atlantic Community in terms of a "strong, close-knit organization which always has its goals clearly in mind." Such a community can only be achieved gradually, he maintained, through the economic and political strengthening of Europe...