Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attention to the speakers except to hiss off the platform those whose stentorian tones interrupted conversations on the floor. The chairman wearily hammered his gavel and introduced the last speaker of the day. Thanking heaven that the end was near, he slumped in his chair and mopped his forehead with a soggy handerkerchief...
...Derby, Conn, wire hairpin manufacturer. Ten years ago he was saved from a humdrum life as a hairpin king when he won first prize ($100) in the Procter & Gamble International Soap-Carving Contest with a horse whose anatomy was so mythical that he put a horn on its forehead and called it a unicorn. From then on-through Andover and Yale-he recklessly mixed oils, drinks, metaphors. After graduating from college he set out around the world with $2,000 and a set of paints...
...puzzled and he wrinkled his forehead as four more generals and a very shaggy dog named Wilber Marcus walked to his desk...
Wang Ching-wei, prospective head of the "all-the-People" puppet Government of China, a Japanese tool with combined Japanese Army-Government approval freshly stamped on his forehead, sent a wordy telegram to the Generalissimo. He proposed discussions "with a view toward securing nationwide peace on a basis of honor and justice and to facilitate the solution of such problems as the total withdrawal of Japanese troops from China. ... I am sending this message from my inner heart." Terms of the pact: Chinese recognition of Manchukuo; North China and Mongolia to be a "special zone for defense and economic development...
Director of the far-flung diplomatic machinery which tackles this job is a tough aristocrat of 58-a tall, big-boned man with a high forehead, clear, slightly myopic eyes, a firm chin, a sensitive mouth. He was christened Edward Frederick Lindley Wood. Now he is Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of His Majesty's Government for the past 23 momentous months of world affairs...