Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation since last March...
Meanwhile, a rash of "sabotage" trials had broken out in Poland. The head of the state farms in Qlsztyn was sentenced to be hanged for "deliberately failing to carry out the state plan." In Lodz, five state bank directors were sent to prison for "mismanagement of state finances." So much administrative talent had been axed that President Bierut found it necessary to instruct party officials to avoid "all hasty and imprudent dismissals...
...time, energy, health, and peace of mind to his country than the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He left a luerative private practice in the early thirties to serve first on the Wisconsin Public Utilities Commission, then as Director of the TVA, and finally as AEC head. At no time has his salary approached a just renumeration for his services...
...newsman--William German, head of the San Francisco Chronicle's copy desk--put it this way: "We're tremendously impressed with Harvard's vitality and stimulation. There's so much worth doing here that I wish I could spend a full four years...
...trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into his buddy, and then travels the rest of the familiar road to his comeback at Indianapolis...