Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested that Russia has now concluded that any benefits to be had from Tito's friendship are outweighed by the disorder in the satellites caused by Tito's talk of separate roads to socialism. When in doubt, the Russians hang on to what they have, and never mind opinions in the rest of the world...
...bringing with it its agonizing retching and diarrhea. In one week alone nearly 1,000 people died-yet India's government continues to be too little and too late with help. Said one bitter physician after ten hours with his vomiting patients: "We don't mind hard work if it is worthwhile. But after a time the epidemic will subside only to recur the same time next year, and the pattern it will follow will be identical and without any improvement...
...have to plow through instruction in such matters as "Mental Hygiene and Personality Development" before he gets his certificate, probably in January. Tired, and a little vexed, he said last week: "I feel in the teaching profession you do not have money, but you do have integrity of the mind. You do not have to compromise with knowledge. But now I am forced to do so. A teacher should be judged only on the students he turns...
...three raw eggs cracked into a glass with the yolks intact and swallowed in one agonized gulp. In the evening in his dressing room, he will dose himself from a staggering array of pills and nose drops. As a tension reliever, and because he thinks it helps clear his mind, he will sit down for several minutes bolt upright, put his hands on his knees, close his eyes, inhale four times in staccato gasps through the nose until his lungs are expanded to bursting, finally exhale through his nose in four staccato installments. Finally, he will pray. Then he will...
Paradoxically, the chilling anger of The Visit springs from the fertile, unangry mind of a bulky (230 Ibs.), cigar-smoking Swiss burgher with the tastes of a bon vivant, the genial manner of a retired cook. Surrounded by his wife Lotti (once an actress), three children, four dogs and seven cats, 37-year-old Friedrich Düurren-matt churns out his bitter plays from a picture-postcard villa in the green woods overlooking Lake Neuchatel...