Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first stagy gesture came almost as soon as she was seated-she tugged at her attorney's sleeve and whispered importantly, her head held to one side with a stiff and stilted coquettishness. Watching her, many a spectator felt that her affected posturing explained the things that had happened to Mildred Gillars almost as well as the testimony...
...Frankie, a man of delicate sensibilities, promptly resigned his vice chairmanship "to forestall any embarrassment on anybody's part." Said Costello plaintively: "I don't ask any favors from anybody. Anything I do comes from the heart, not the head...
While at College, Adam was the team's mainstay. Although he lacked natural athletic ability, he made up for that by really using his head all the time. "Every shot had a purpose," Barnaby recalls...
...James Henry ("Dress-Shirt Jimmy") Thomas, 74, British labor leader who was forced to resign from the Cabinet in 1936 for tipping off friends on budget secrets; in London. Starting as a railroad engine wiper in his early teens, Thomas led his first strike at 15, rose to be head of the powerful National Union of Railwaymen, became a Laborite M.P., served in five Cabinets, was slated for the peerage when the budget scandal broke...
...Sachsenhausen). "Dante's Inferno couldn't be worse. There were more than a thousand Jews; that is, they had once been Jews and human beings, now they were living skeletons, beastlike in their mad hunger. They flung themselves on the dust bins, or rather plunged into them, head and shoulders, several at a time; they scratched up everything, absolutely everything that was lying in them, potato peel, garbage, rottenness of every kind . . . The whole time, without a break, the blows from rubber truncheons were hailing down on them...