Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with machine-gun fire. Last week three days of continuous Japanese attacks succeeded in dislodging the Mongol flanks, but the centre clung to its positions. Despite rains that turned the dusty plain into a quagmire, both sides dragged up heavy artillery. Japanese reinforcements were brought up from the rail head at Halunarshan while prisoners were sent north to Hailar on the old Chinese Eastern Railway. A "suicide corps" formed, to drive the last 2,000 Mongols back across the Khalka...
Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head. They were bound for the little village of Le Mas-Rillier, which has sunned itself for 2,000 years on a mountain top near Lyons, overlooking the Rhone Valley. The heads were those of a Virgin and Child. Joined to concrete bodies, they will complete the largest statue in the world...
...long ago Pius XI's thoughtful successor appealed to George William Cardinal Mundelein, asked him to find good Catholic, bad Fascist Nobile a U. S. job. Few weeks later Cardinal Mundelein found one barely twelve miles southwest of his own Chicago Archdiocese. The job: head of the aeronautical engineering department of Lewis Holy Name School of Aeronautics near Lockport, Ill. Last week, lonely, greying, but still vigorous at 54, Umberto Nobile boarded the Conte di Savoia...
...outlet. On hands and knees, Charles Miller gazed down into its reeds. A quarter mile away something moved. Charles Miller's blood froze. Lashing across the swamp was a dinosaur. It was 35 feet long, a yellowish color, with scales laid on like armor plate, a bony-flanged head, and snappin-turtle beak. Half blinded by cold sweat, Charles Miller pressed the release on his camera.* The dinosaur reared up on its hind legs, its small forelegs dangling, hissed roaringly, shot its snaky neck in his direction and slithered out of sight. Concluding that his rifle would be "about...
Author Miller took cannibalism much more easily in his stride than did Seabrook. On one occasion he says he led a highly successful head-hunting expedition to save his own neck, spares few details in describing it and the three-day orgy which followed. As other races use lanterns, flags and bunting for celebrations, the natives of New Guinea string up their victims' vertebrae...