Word: minds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wind sliced through his home town, and the thermometer stood at 41°, the President of the U.S. removed his hat and topcoat, and stepped up to address the spectators: "Whenever I return here," said he, "I invariably sense, in these surroundings, an atmosphere of simplicity and peace ... My mind goes back nostalgically to the conditions I knew as a boy. We did not then know the term 'world tension'; life was peaceful, serene and happy...
...hell, let's go!" exclaimed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, closing a mid-September strategy huddle. "I want to do it, and regardless of what I do or don't do the speculation will continue." His mind made up, his plans well laid, Rockefeller last week announced the decision that he had nailed down in the conference: next month he will make speeches and talk politics in Vice President Nixon's fortress California and potentially pivotal Oregon. While still disavowing his candidacy, Rockefeller was obviously stalking the presidency a lot sooner and a lot more...
...Pacific-a turn of events that galled the spectacular MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind in favor of an assault across the English Channel. Marshall's fondest hope was that he could break out of the deskbound frustration of the staff planner to command the Normandy invasion, but Franklin Roosevelt turned him down: "I wouldn't sleep at night with...
...brainchild of John U. Monro, then Director of Financial Aid, H.S.A. was set up with three purposes in mind: to supervise established enterprises and promote new business ventures for the benefit of students in need of financial aid; to provide experience in the practical management of business affairs; and "to foster, encourage and inculcate in its members qualities and habits of work, thrift, and self-reliance...
...example of "adjustment"-for Casanova adapted himself so easily to his own desires. Yet there may be more truth in Ellis' exaggerated view than in the more conventional notion expressed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which complains that "the recital of his love affairs is monotonous and reveals a mind that was superficial and almost inhuman." Casanova was all too human, and his far-from-superficial mind recorded in the Memoirs an incomparable picture of 18th century life, ranging from jail to royal court, from theater to church...