Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The seven-headed Hydra of Greek mythology was a tough monster to be up against: every time a head was cut off, two more promptly grew in its place.* Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson sometimes feels as harried and frustrated as a man trying to kill a Hydra. Under Benson...
On the same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local...
At the poor man's pub and the rich man's dinner table, the most hotly debated subject in Britain for weeks past has been homosexuality. The question: Should homosexual acts between consenting adults be taken off the list of statutory crimes in Britain? Last September a special...
¶ In Ossining, N.Y., ten Protestants and Jews brought suit against the board of education for using "a tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to propagate their faith." Cause of the fuss: the board had approved the request of a citizens' committee, headed...
To get it started again, Alaskans set up a bipartisan committee, headed by onetime Democratic Governor Ernest Gruening, to argue the case for unlimited exploration. Said Gruening, himself a vociferous conservationist: "The conservation lobbyists who get most upset are those who live in big-city apartments and have not the...