Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setbacks to farming, almost landed an American Chain & Cable Co. plant, but at the last minute lost out. Putting its finger on the reason, the Iowa Development Commission said: "Poor community attitude." Last week a commission pulse-feeler passed through, asked a workman in overalls what he now thought of Oskaloosa. "Best damned town in Iowa," the workman roared...
...hung with bad weather: ceiling, 1,500 ft.; visibility, five miles; rain. Maxwell woke up, groggily plugged in his headset. He cut his speed to 200 knots to reduce the buffeting of the plane and the charge of the biting wind. "I think I said about 50 prayers. I thought about everything-the things I used to do when I was a kid, like playing ball, and my family. They were the ones I was really fighting...
Heading to the Woods. The party stalwarts were in a panic at the thought of losing 68-year-old Nehru, who has allowed no one to grow up in his shadow, and whose national prestige, if slipping a little, is still immense. By acclamation they rushed through a resolution declaring that the Congress Party "categorically refuses to contemplate any period devoid of Nehru's continued leadership." But Nehru was standing firm. He scolded the party members for their action: "You do not do me any credit. It will mean that I have acted casually and you have also acted...
...process of choosing, the students find out a lot about the College and who is here. An IBM system doesn't explain the structure of the College as a whole. Our system justifies much time and thought," Leighton commented...
...voyage of the Golden Rule Bigelow says: ". . . men are bound by old patterns of feeling, thought, and action. The organs of public opinion are almost completely shut against us. It seems practically impossible, moreover, for the ordinary person by ordinary means to speak to, and affect the action of, his government. . . . It is only by such acts as sailing a boat to Eniwetok and thus 'speaking' to the government right in the testing area that we can expect to be heard...