Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...none of this altered the grey toil of entering item 6, and subtracting line 2 from line 1, or eased the dogged pursuit of deductions. The task of home accountancy seemed to grow more harassing every year. And in mid-March, the man who had preferred not to think how much money the government was getting out of his check every week, had to face up to the spectacle of his tax total and sign his name beneath...
Concerning the way in which Professor Taylor and Professor Karpovitch have handled the course--I think they have done a magnificent job. They have stressed broad understanding rather than petty detail or a number of arbitrary points. They have asked no questions that are not obviously important after one careful reading of the assignment. As for the dates and map assignments, unlike those in every other history course I have taken, they were (1) easy, (2) helpful as hooks on which to hang more facts, (3) helpful as a way of making all migrations, territorial changes, etc., more meaningful...
...days before election, Communist Boss Gildo Gasperoni produced his trump card. "We expect to bring home 197 Sammarinesi from Genoa, another four or five hundred from the rest of Italy, and 130 who went to France as coal miners. That ought to be enough to swing the election, I think." On election day the expatriates came home with all expenses paid by the Communist-Socialist coalition...
After the first shock wore off, screams were heard from as far away as London. Who did Louis think he was, anyway, dictating his own successor? The loudest screams came from Promoter Mike Jacobs, semi-retired boss of Manhattan's 20th Century Sporting Club: "I never thought he would do this to me . . . I'm getting back in harness in two weeks. We ain't conceding nothing." It was clear to him that Promoter Joe had declared war on Promoter Mike, the man who masterminded all of Louis' championship fights...
...surgeon, Critics Lipkin & Joseph think, should take time to talk-and listen-to his patient. He should tell the patient just what to expect, stress his chances of surviving the operation and getting well. Sometimes, Lipkin & Joseph charged, the doctor "tries to justify a large fee, or builds up his own importance in the patient's eyes by talking of the difficulty of the operation and how his experience and skill will be needed . . ." Unfortunately, the operation's danger is what sticks in the patient's mind...