Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyers expect the case to establish the precedent of whether communities are prohibited from making laws restricting the construction of any building of such an institution, or whether, in addition, they cannot limit its size. The University, bearing in mind its own extensive construction program, supports the broader interpretation...
...challenge of South America, for what it told about the national frame of mind and will to deal with problems once defined, was the most heartening. Back from the humiliation at the hands of Communist-led mobs in Venezuela came Vice President Richard Nixon. His first concern was not with redressing his personal grievances but with setting right the things that he had found wrong with U.S. policy in Latin America; it was challenge and response. On this course his perennial enemies the Democrats agreed, even though they swung on Nixon as a political target as a result...
...apologies have been received and accepted, the immediate question before us is how it happened that the Nixons were exposed to these outrages. It is manifest that the whole South American tour was misconceived, that it was planned by men who did not know what was the state of mind in the cities the Vice President was to visit. For what has happened should never have been allowed to happen and those who are responsible for the management of our relations with South America must answer to the charge of gross incompetence. We must fix and we must correct...
...those still in a bearish frame of mind, Roy L. Reierson, vice president of and chief economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., argued that the leveling out of the economy is still ahead...
...Unarmed. It is Belle who lets the enemy enter no man's land. She falls in love, and brings home Hubby No. 2, a tall, wan, thirtyish lawyer named Maurice. Almost instinctively, Isa, Nathalie, and the demented sister proceed to devour Maurice's peace of mind. They use the weapons of the unarmed: inertia, silence, cunning. They cough when poor Maurice lights a cigarette, cook all the dishes he detests, fall silent, as if spied on, when he enters a room...