Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magic, has earned widespread respect for candor and readiness with information. "You should see him operate with Congress," said a colleague. "Whenever a knotty one comes up, he slaps his knee and says: 'Senator, you're entirely right. You've hit the nail on the head.' Next thing you know, the whole room is full of Senators working like mad to help Paul Hoffman solve his problems...
...militant putschist, Zaim was getting off to a slow start. First he tried to get Faris el-Khouri, former Premier and Syria's delegate to the United Nations, to form a cabinet. When El Khouri refused, Zaim dissolved parliament and appointed himself temporary Premier at the head of a cabinet of "technicians." Most Syrians, sipping coffee in the bazaars and smoking their hubble-bubble pipes, took hardly any notice of the change in government. In their 4,000-year history they had tasted the rule of Persians, Greeks, Romans, Mongols, Turks and French; they were prepared to get used...
...animals exposed to the atom-bomb blast and radiation in the 1946 Operation Crossroads, none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...
From the university's music-department head, O. Anderson Fuller, came a brisk reminder: "In this song you will find such words as 'mammy', 'pickaninny' and 'darkies', which render any song unfit and unworthy of such a high honor." Lincoln's orchestra, he wrote, would have to decline the invitation to play...
Thus, scarcely out of her teens, "quaking with fear and shaking like an aspen," Belle da Costa Greene began her career as head of the Pierpont Morgan Library. She was not to quake or shake for long. In time she became famous in her own field. The sight of her great plumed hats among auction bidders was enough to send auctioneers into a tizzy. Dealers learned to jump at her summons, and the news of one of her purchases for the Morgan Library could rock the whole book world. It was Belle who turned Morgan's first haphazard collection...