Word: headed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canvassed the neighborhoods. Accused of arrogance, he went on television to admit mistakes. Charged with being soft on crime, he boasted of his efforts to beef up the police department. To overcome the argument that his policies had encouraged anti-Semitism among black radicals, he went, yarmulke on head, to synagogues to plead his case...
Floor debate on the Haynsworth nomination is expected to begin this week. Both sides are careening toward it on a collision course. A head count by Republican leaders last week showed 54 Senators planning to vote against Haynsworth or leaning that way. Only 36 backed the taciturn South Carolinian. Ten remained undecided. To Nixon's chagrin, the opposition included 18 Republicans, among them Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Assistant Leader Robert Griffin and Caucus Chairman Margaret Chase Smith. Haynsworth's chances received a severe blow when Senator Jack Miller of Iowa announced his opposition. It was the first break...
...head is brushed by a beam, then I have an encounter...
...downpour subsided into a fine mist, Fred spied a big buck munching on ground hemlock 80 yards away. Slowly, silently, Fred positioned his razorhead arrow and watched for five, ten, 20 excruciating minutes as the buck worked his way toward the clearing. But suddenly, he jerked his head, wriggled his nose, and was off into the bush. "Damn!" exclaimed Fred as he huddled over the camp stove. "With this island's tricky wind, it's hard to beat a deer's nose...
Darrell Royal, head coach at the University of Texas, wears tailored three-button suits and adopts a low-keyed, tutorial tone with his players. "When he explains something," says Quarterback James Street, "it's like getting a lecture from a professor." Royal also likes to bring his charges down to earth with such occasional homespun homilies as: "There ain't a hoss alive that can't be rode, and there ain't a man alive who can't be throw...