Word: headed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traffic School. In Milwaukee, Leo Stoll was fined $100 after he put a pistol to a cabby's head, said, "If you don't drive carefully, I'm going to kill...
...minutes later, the mourners moved back toward their cars. Alone at the head of the grave, a cemetery workman stuck into the fresh earth a metal marker reading simply...
Onto the U.S. forces' Omaha Beach, a concave sweep of sand 300 yards deep beneath fortified bluffs, the U.S. ist and 29th Divisions sent in a spearhead of 1,450 men. They ran head on into most of the German 352nd Division-undamaged by the inaccurate air bombardment-and were soon shelled, mortared, mined, machine-gunned. But even as the German commander at Omaha announced victory and began diverting his reserves against the British, U.S. Colonel George A. Taylor ordered an advance: "Now let's get the hell out of here!" Inch by inch, behind accurate naval gunfire...
...Guineas A Head. In the upper levels of British society, where money talks, it often betrays its origins. A large group of "expense account" businessmen and admen are beating at the gates. Many have the proper backgrounds, went to school at Eton and Oxford, served in the Guards or other "good" regiments. But. laments one adman who makes $56,000 a year: "People I grew up with, who have gone into civil service or banking, are members of the Athenaeum or Reform Club by now. I can't get in. I've tried and failed. Most...
Although new at the job of head residents, the Bevingtons are by no means strangers to the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Mr. Bevington graduated from Harvard in 1954, where he was affiliated with Dunster House. His wife, formerly Margaret (Peggy) Brown, received her A.B. from Radcliffe in 1956, and was treasurer of the Student Government Association. Both majored in English and literature as undergraduates. (A literary map of the British Isles hangs on the living room wall of their present apartment at 141 Oxford Street...