Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away virtually unchallenged with horrendous buckshot charges. Sample: "The defense support part of this program in all probability has been responsible for more bribery, overpricing, conniving and profit taking on the part of officials and friends of officials in foreign nations than any program ever conceived by the mind...
...Teamster membership is up (to more than 1,500,000), and Hoffa is setting up deals right and left with A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, such as the brewery workers, butchers and carpenters, the effect of which is to undermine the strength of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. He even has in mind calling a new Teamster convention so that he can divest himself of the three court-appointed monitors who are presiding over the promised Teamster cleanup, which is still in the promise stage...
With the inborn shrewdness of the feuder, Bracken Lee has carefully selected his ground. He will run as an Independent, out of reach of disapproving Republicans at the state convention and the primary election, but accessible to Democrats of a mind to stop Watkins by stepping across the party boundary at primary time to vote for Watkins' competition. Both parties, said Lee impartially in announcing his independent candidacy, "stand for and support the same policy of high tax, waste and giveaway programs...
...Science Advisory Committee from twelve to 17, recruited scores of scientists coast to coast to set up 20 or so panels to study space programs, scientific education, missiles, translations of Russian documents, anything relevant to science. Before long he had generally set off a ferment of excited scientific mind-rubbing...
Wahoo was not noted for learning half a century ago, but its less-than-perfect school system did not slow or discourage Beadle's active mind. He made his own lunch, generally jelly sandwiches (he still hates jelly sandwiches) and walked the three-mile round trip to school. When he earned a little money by such rural operations as keeping bees and trapping muskrats, he bought garlic bolognas (two for 5?) at the Bohemian butcher shop...