Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This trip has impressed one thing on my mind ... I need to do more reading, more writing and more thinking if I ever want to fulfill my dream of being someone in this world. Maybe I seem foolish to have such vain hopes and plans, but, Bucky, I can see how some day, if you and I just apply ourselves and make up our minds to work for bigger things, how we can some day live here in Washington, and probably be in Government politics or service. I set my aim at Congress. Don't laugh at me. Maybe...
...friends could say in his favor that he had also proved himself an honest and able public servant, with a quick, retentive mind, inexhaustible vigor, and considerable political courage. His point of view, born of the Dust Bowl, was honestly arrived at and stoutly held...
...galvanized into action. Dressing like a whirlwind, his mind working like a cog, he began to work over countless fearless and colorful ideas. What, for instance, had become of the Student Council's perennially incipient investigation of food? An opening sentence popped into his teeming brain: "Neither the food nor the Student Council has shown any signs of improvement recently...
Enter: Bull. The stock market paid little heed to the fat profits or to any of the other household gods that traders once swore by. Ever since it had collapsed in fear of a recession in 1946, the market had been seesawing, trying to make up its mind whether the boom had really come to stay. Looking at some of the props under the boom-plant expansion, ECA and rearmament orders-investors celebrated the tax cut by finally placing their bets...
Originally a play, and once before produced as a movie,* the new version of the story resembles a photographed stage show. Most of the action takes place on a single set, and the chief plot development takes place in the gunman's mind. Director Rudolph Maté (famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect...