Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Middle-of-the-Road Man. The grave situation fell hardest on Premier Parri. But at 55, the tall, stooped man with the lined face, baggy clothes, big hat and high, intellectual forehead was used to hard knocks. He had fought through World War I (four wounds, four decorations). He had fought against Fascism, as a journalist and organizer of the Actionist underground. In World War II he had fought the Germans as vice commandant of the northern partisans. A middle-of-the-road man, he had been chosen as the compromise leader of a compromise Cabinet...
Ernest Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...
...Some lycanthropologists go further, insist that the genuine werewolf has no tail at all, and that its clothes can be found not far from its kill. If struck by iron or steel, the skin on the forehead of a true werewolf splits and the naked man pops out. If the beast is freezing cold, however, it is invulnerable to everything but balls of elder pith or bullets made of inherited silver...
...double that number. . . . Take four [digitalis] tablets daily for one or two weeks. . . . Report to the doctor with the following complaints: You do not feel well and are short of breath after exertions. . . . Occasionally you have attacks of pain in the heart region. . . . There was cold sweat on your forehead during the attack and you had a feeling as though you were going to die. The doctor will probably have an electrocardiogram done, which . . . will show typical signs of a disease calling for ... removal from the strains of front life...
Sparkplug of the new program is clear-eyed, billiard-bald President Case, 44, who was dubbed by a Princeton classmate ('22) "the man whose forehead is most likely to recede." Slow-moving but thorough, "Ev" Case well knows that the success of the Core depends, more than anything else, on having a crack, wellrounded, flexible faculty. By his own steady example in his two and a half years at Colgate, he has impressed the value of these qualities on the older hands. For the future, he has a sharp eye out for men who consider college teaching an education...