Word: headed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first act was to head for Austin to try to beat a bill, which he had previously supported, to place San Antonio employes under civil service...
...bought carriage after carriage for him . . . but . . . he just couldn't sit up. [Father Greenfield demonstrated how the child's head flopped to & fro on its neck.] I bought babies' toys for him but when I held them out he couldn't grasp them. He lay there like a-like a lump of pudding." Jerry grew large rapidly, too rapidly. He never learned to walk alone, could only lurch, spin and sprawl. Almost nothing coordinated. He had to be helped with the simplest functions. When he was put in institutions, he pined for his family...
...Augustus Maverick who landed in Matagorda, Tex. from South Carolina early in 1835 with a Yale education, $36,000 in gold and so much energy that when he died he left ten children and more land than almost anyone in the U. S. Only cattle he owned were 453 head, acquired for a debt, which he put on an island and forgot. When their unbranded offspring wandered ashore, cowmen would whoop, "There's a Maverick!" and rope...
...German intrigue and U. S. counter-intrigue. Führer Hitler had invited General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian Chief of Staff, to visit Berlin. The Führer was prepared to shower the General with compliments, among them the honor of marching down Unter den Linden at the head of a specially picked regiment of Nazi troops...
...naked class war propounded by Karl Marx. Lacking internal flexibility and with the shaky Austro-Hungarian Empire messing up the possibilities of progress to the east, the German economic system had seemingly reached its limits of growth as far back as 1914, Germany's "assisted capitalism" had run head-on into Germany's poverty of resources-a circumstance which was to have an ominous parallel 25 years later...