Word: headed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Member nations hope to have the final draft by October and to announce their first common tariff reductions, to be effective next July. They made no bones about their real purpose: "To facilitate negotiations" with the bigger, booming Common Market Six (France, West Germany, Italy, Benelux) and thus head off a permanent division of European trade...
...fantasticated façade of Buckingham Palace, at which an ice-cream-suited American was directing a battery of cameras. In quick succession, an Indian girl, a trio of tarts, and two wing-hatted nuns danced onstage to gawk at the bearskinned sentries. A school girl got her head stuck between a sentry's legs. In the ballet's climax, the cast crowded about the palace gates to salute the Queen with ringing, patriotic cheers...
...Purposes. Last week George Brain was preparing to move on to one of the biggest public-school jobs in the U.S.; as successor to Dr. John Fischer, new dean of Teachers College, Columbia University, he will be head of Baltimore's schools. Under Fischer, the Baltimore school system has been raised to top level, and the city canvassed the country for the best man for the succession. Brain, youngest superintendent of a major U.S. school system, has come a long way from Ellensburg, Wash., where he attended Central Washington College and later taught after serving in the Marines...
...nostalgia. Back on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Golden recalls, the old folks would mutter, "A klug zu Columbus'n" whenever a boy got a bloody nose or the steam was not hot enough in the Turkish baths. Rough translation: "Columbus should have broken his head before he discovered America." But there were consolations. "For 2^ plain" a lad could buy a large glass of clear Seltzer. Flavoring cost a penny more, but sometimes he could persuade the counterman to "put a little on the top" for nothing. Jewish boys seldom learned to swim, says Golden, because...
...turned his head away and gazed upon...