Word: bareheadedness
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No sooner had the Tafts bustled back to Washington than Tom Dewey flew into Grand Island from Albany. Standing bareheaded on a sound truck outside the Yancey Hotel, he apologized for his late arrival. Said he: "I ran into headwinds. I am tired of headwinds. I ran into a strong...
As the ship readied to sail, Messersmith and Perón stood bareheaded on the deck, the Ambassador visibly shivering in the raw winter wind, talking fast and repeatedly jabbing Perón on the chest with his index finger. Perón reassuringly patted the Ambassador. Then the President...
Manhattan took just as warmly to Alemán as Washington, but its weather was bad. A misty rain fell. Bareheaded, Alemán smiled through hours of parading up & down the island in an open car. Wall Street gave him a soggy version of its traditional ticker-tape ovation...
¶ Thousands of white soldiers worked unprotected in the noonday sun, often-bareheaded, without ill effects.
The worst recent labor flare-up came last fortnight at Cawnpore, where militant Communist-and Socialist-led workers have developed some new bargaining techniques. They locked a labor inspector in an office and made a factory manager stand bareheaded in the sun for four hours until he agreed to reinstate...