Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no doubt that John Foster Dulles' illness hung heavily on the President's mind in everything he did. "It is like losing a brother," he had said; and from Dwight Eisenhower, brought up one of seven brothers in Abilene, Kans., the remark had deep meaning. Nor was there any doubt that the President meant to keep Dulles on his staff, at least in name, as long as Dulles was able...
Behind the thriving economy lay an even greater achievement: a state of mind and spirit that recognized long ago that good schools, expanding culture and economic development were too vital to be stopped short by a fight over integration. Like all Southern states, North Carolina met its toughest test after the Supreme Court's 1954 decision. But guided by able leadership, it did not panic. Instead it plotted minimum but legal compliance, went on to more important business-and in so doing soon put the crisis in reasonable perspective. Part of the credit was due to Governor Hodges...
What changed Muñoz' mind was an upsurge of statehood sentiment after admission to the Union of Hawaii, which is also a racially dissimilar, noncontiguous U.S. possession. As a first step, he promised to request the island legislature to pass a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to grant whatever status the Puerto Rican people may choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress...
Sneered the Daily Mirror's Columnist Cassandra: "Of all the wibbly-wobblers at the White House, President Eisenhower is doing his best to break the records for indecision . . . General Eisenhower just doesn't know his own mind-which maybe is just as well...
...tenor and is possessed with (or perhaps by) what somebody once called a sort of gee-whiz charm. No freckles were discernible on Mr. Cox's visage from Row H, but he played as if in his soul he were freckled. This was probably not what anybody had in mind, but it will certainly...