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Word: minding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smell it in the air yesterday? I mean, here it is, only February, and you've been trying to put it out of your mind for at least a couple more weeks (for the sake of the NBA), but it stared you right in the nostrils...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...sensation that shot right up through your upper vacillary and pitched camp in that nostalgic, ever-chilklike corner of your mind. And maybe it was the warm sun, maybe it was the fact that you could put your down-filled whatever into drydock for an afternoon, but it was there, and the aroma tingled "baseball" and nothing else...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...youngster who apologized for being female: I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On the Human Side | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...idle hours: When I have no special problem to occupy my mind, I love to reconstruct proofs of mathematical and physical theorems that have long been known to me. There is no goal in this, merely an opportunity to indulge in the pleasant occupation of thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On the Human Side | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Several of us read your untitled novel here with admiration for writing and style. Jerzy Kosinski comes to mind as a point of comparison when reading the stark, chilly, episodic incidents you have set down. The drawback to the manuscript, as it stands, is that it doesn't add up to a satisfactory whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polish Joke | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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