Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right. "Vaguely" is the word. I live in the country; therefore it takes a number of days to cable a house and build various steel towers. I talked some time prior to the program to the writer and director-twice if my memory serves me. Please bear in mind that these gentlemen didn't know me from Adam's off ox-I daresay that should...
...only against its opponents' existing weapons but also against every Flash Gordon device that the opposition might conceivably develop. Every nation is thus alarmed by the ballooning of arms costs. Harold Macmillan, returning last winter from Moscow, found arms budgets the chief subject on Khrushchev's mind...
Biography of a Missile gave Edward R. Murrow and the same CBS crew that put together other notable documentaries (Montgomery Speaks His Mind, The Lost Class of '59) another chance to demonstrate the most impressive techniques yet developed by TV journalism. From the cocky drawing-board confidence of the creators of Juno II, to the unforgettably tense faces of the missilemen when their bird was fired, Biography recorded every important aspect in the life of one of man's most intricate creations. The cameras sighted in on the meticulous welding of Juno's outer skin...
...python, Berry's account of the hunt entwines the reader like a jungle creeper. The death of the book's villain is a grisly reminder that horror is comedy's blood brother. "Man," one character is moved to reflect, "might be an idea in the Divine Mind, but he was not a fixed idea...
...near-alcoholic; yet he pursued his writing craft with monastic austerity. He had the courage to face approaching blindness, eleven eye operations, and his daughter Lucia's madness, but he ran from dogs and thunder. He renounced Roman Catholicism, but he could never rid his mind of the systems of Aquinas and Aristotle. He loathed and left his native land, yet his bitterness was inverted longing. Small wonder that Nora once told a friend: "You can't imagine what it was like for me to be thrown into the life of this...