Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Voter . . . showed that he had a mind of his own and courage to do what it dictated...
Finance Minister Sanroku Izumiyama found it hard to keep his mind on the supplementary budget. Just before a night session of the Diet last week, he expansively invited some 20 fellow Diet members to dine with him. Host Izumiyama, who is 52, turned up a little late, a little drunk. While the toasts were in progress, the Finance Minister, pausing only to hug a couple of waitresses, sat down by Mrs. Haruye Yamashita, 48, a solidly built, mannishly dressed member of the opposition, who had had a couple of drinks herself. Izumiyama wasted no time indicating that...
Emile Allais' one-track mind leaves visible traces-he is a skier. He grew up in the French Alpine village of Mégève, and there learned his skiing early. He raced all over Europe, won the 1937 downhill and slalom world's championships, coached the French Olympic skiing team for seven years. He fought World War II on skis. He even courted his wife at a ski meet...
...corner of his mind and drawing board, Cartoonist Capp is toying with an anti-shmoo. The horrid animal "might very possibly" come from Lower Slobbovia to exterminate the shmoo, and "might very possibly" be called the "nogudnik." But as long as The Life & Times of the Shmoo is a bestseller, the nogudnik will doubtless stay put under the Lower Slobbovia snow...
...also a year in which literary figures were allowed to speak for themselves: Andre Gide's Journal, Vol. 2, rich with evidence of the creative mind's way of work; Franz Kafka's morbid Diaries; Anton Chekhov's plain, warm Private Papers; Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters in Untriangulated Stars which told the painful story of an American poet's struggle for survival...