Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat with a lawyer's incisive mind, Jessup was picked as the ideal man to thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria's people were not told of Kostov's execution, nor did they hear of his alleged message from the gallows, until just before the start of their national elections last Sunday. The news apparently put the voters into the proper frame of mind. For the Red Fatherland Front slate (there was no other slate), 4,500,000, or almost 100%, voted a Russian...
...graduated summa cum laude. As soon as he could he headed for Cambridge University, there "to walk over door sills that had been worn by 600 years of students and to sit in lecture rooms where Marlowe and Milton had sat." He had long since made up his mind what his life's work would...
...that was more than most of the other invited composers could say as they began to compose short symphonic pieces for the centennial of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916). "I got on the telephone with [Indianapolis Symphony Conductor] Fabien Sevitzky and told him what I had in mind," said Hoagy. "He encouraged me to go ahead...
Last week, Indianapolis audiences also got to hear what had been on Composer Carmichael's mind. It was Hoagy's first serious composition, a nine-minute tone poem entitled Brown County in Autumn...