Word: appointer
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...chicken blood smeared on their legs and feast distensively. Boys with their first heads get drunk and talk with visionary jaguars, boa constrictors, electric eels and other fierce creatures. The captured women stand and weep. Their weeping is important. If no woman was captured in the raid, the victors appoint their own women as proxies to weep for the gory heads. Each man who took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment...
...effort to attract sympathy to his cause last week, King Carol let it be known that a "mysterious and unknown assassin" had been caught in his private car. By the week's end he had other troubles. In a crisis brought on by a League of Nations' proposal to appoint a financial controller for Rumania, the Rumanian Cabinet resigned...
...Each club shall, annually before Commencement Day, appoint a graduate representative to serve throughout the following year on an Advisory Committee, which committee shall elect its own chairman, who need not be a representative, appointed by a club, and shall consider matters arising under this agreement and such a modification thereof as may seem desirable. The powers of the committee shall be advisory only, except that it shall be the duty of this committee to take suitable steps to make this agreement known to all persons concerned...
...unification program, Oregon's system is to be headed by a chancellor who, aloof from campus connections and responsible to the state board, will supervise the work of five college presidents and 15 deans. During heated electioneering, the Oregon State faction urged that the state board appoint their President Kerr, as an able, unbiased man of 25 years' experience. University supporters held that a new man, an outsider, should get the job. Lately Dr. George Frederick Zook, president of the University of Akron, toured the five colleges, conferred with the board. While in Portland he received a letter...
...when President Coolidge was empowered by Congress to appoint an Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation as a result of the investigation into the air services conducted by Morgan Partner Dwight Whitney Morrow, the summoning of Trubee Davison from the New York legislature was almost a matter of course...