Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pollster Elmo Roper promptly criticized Rockefeller for letting his decision rest upon a mere "popularity poll" when he "ought to make up his mind whether the things he believes in are more likely to come about if he is President." Pollster George Gallup, who last July showed Nixon trailing Democrat Adlai Stevenson 44% to 56%, reported that Nixon's Russian trip boosted his trial-heat vote to 51% v. 49% for Stevenson...
...MIND THE STOP: A BRIEF GUIDE TO PUNCTUATION, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, by G.V. Carey. Cambride (Eng.): Cambridge University Press, 1958. 130 pages. 95 cents...
...updated and expanded his effort into a handy book, the best short compendium on the subject to be found anywhere. Carey regards punctuation as "governed two-thirds by rule and one-third by personal taste," and its first essential as conveying the meaning "to the reader's mind, through his eye, with the least possible delay and without any ambiguity." He feels that "the best punctuation is that of which the reader is least conscious...
...show is such a delight, however, that no one seems to mind. There was an unusually large number of children at last night's performance, and even they were attentive throughout. This is no mean feat...
...peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the plot, offering the heroine a wide choice of elegant men, documents the complexity of a woman's mind and heart. The case is wrapped up by Inspector McKee, nagged by his boss the commissioner, who, in turn, is nagged by political pressures. Expertly tooled and shined, soundly constructed...