Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleep? Sure it was a sort of pressagent stunt. But medical researchers are hard to intimidate. They'll go to any unlikely place to get at the facts, and they wanted to learn more-they already know a little -about what happens to a man's mind and body when he goes without sleep. The medicine men, lured by the scent of big data, moved in on the ballyhoo of a Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor, poked and pried and quizzed Disk Jockey Peter Tripp for 200 sleepless hours. It will...
Some need small, private dining rooms; most lack adequate lighting in their libraries. The Masters probably have special improvements in mind for which their Ford money in insufficient...
...weeks when the headlines glared with the ominous news of the execution of more and more of Batista's henchmen. The understandable reaction of many, if not most American editorial columns was one of disapproval and disappointment. Indeed, I went to Havana with such an attidue, but my mind was soon changed. On the basis of what I have personally seen and heard, I have no doubt but that the executions are deserved...
This interest in contemporary manners shows up his book Company Manners: a cultural inquiry into American life ("The subject of how titles are arrived at is an amusing one for someone to go into some day; I had thirty minutes to make up my mind on this one, and fear the result sounds a little pompous.")--a view of contemporary culture and urban life in America. ("Urban life is all I really claim to know anything about.") Kronenberger is working on a follow-up along the same lines "if I can find enough to say that is really...
Although the Friar's high scorer and right wing Joe Keough, is a good hockey player, and goalie Don Gerard is far from a pushover, the varsity can win if it puts its mind to the task. The meagre goal production of the second and third lines belies their fine potential, and defense certainly needn't give up three of four breakaways a game...