Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lynn: "Mother didn't want to see her lily-white boy mixed up with those rough characters."† Instead, he was sent to the University of British Columbia to study dentistry. When he flunked out a year later, his father reluctantly agreed to let him play hockey: "I think he thought I'd be lousy and get it out of my system." Lynn practiced eight hours a day, made the amateur Montreal Royals in one season, was ready for a Ranger tryout the next year...
...people drink? Pollsters from the National Opinion Research Center, who went around asking, got a variety of answers. Said a Pennsylvania housewife: "People think you are dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...
Klan of threatening freedom of the press. Said he: ". . . We shall fight to the death to keep the press free." At week's end, ten leading Milledgevillagers put up a $1,000 reward to help catch cross-burners. Said Editor Moore: "I think we're going to get somewhere this time...
...When we think of the early church," preached Davis, "we often think only of the greater leaders. We forget the many not so well known, like Barnabas, whose interest was not in himself but in the church and in people with troubles, such as Paul when the other disciples were still afraid of him, or Mark when Paul in turn gave Mark...
...Same Side of the Street. "I think that I am with you," said Fairless...