Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state of mind of the teachers is even worse. While the pupils at least took part of the blame for their apathy, "only one teacher even insinuated that the faculty might not always be blameless. The most alarming symptom was [the teachers'] fatalistic attitude toward pupil deficiencies and derelictions. The charge most frequently lodged against pupils for not studying, for instance, was 'they don't know how to study.' The tone of the accusation and of the teachers' elaboration on it was one of resignation to fate, of washing their hands of responsibility . . . Until teachers...
...look of the school that his nine-year-old daughter attends. "I was driving by the school with my wife," he explained, "and I said I was going to paint that school. I meant I'd bid on it some time. But it kept coming back to my mind. It said, Taint it,' and I answered, Taint it?' 'Yes,' it said. Taint it for nothing.' And I said, 'Oh, no, not for nothing.' I was talking to myself, and it kept coming back. It stayed on my mind every day until...
...said I was worrying, and I knew then I had to get that school off my mind." Smith talked his brother-in-law into helping him and swore his daughter to secrecy. "I never painted a school before. There were 241 openings I had to paint. I had to paint things the same color as they were, because I was afraid to change things. I figured when they found out I was doing it for nothing, I'd end up in jail." Smith's job saved the city more than $1,000, and for the time being...
Frank Pace, a lean man with worry-free eyes, had a lot of other things on his mind that morning, as befits a man who manages a missile-age empire-and who reached that top post in four short years. An Arkansas-born wonder boy. Pace was U.S. Budget Director (under Harry Truman) at 36 and Secretary of the Army at 37-two jobs that prepared him well for the presidency of General 1 Dynamics, a Arm that does 85% of its business with the Government...
...about the complacency that allowed Hitler's rise: "We have outstanding religious leaders and brilliant philosophers; we have gifted musicians and soldiers; we have smart bankers and remarkable whoremas-ters; we have everything-except human beings." Lieut. Teichmann agrees half-heartedly with the half-truths, then changes his mind, protests that there is some meaning, at least, in fighting courageously...