Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the Stove. Like people everywhere, Freedom's citizens had their worries. Said John Kay: "I don't like a man in debt and over his head like our government is." He worried about Russia too: "When they get China they'll come after us." But for all that, almost everyone agreed with Gail Abrell that Freedom had plenty to be thankful...
...love you." Mrs. Yamashita rose from the table, with Izumiyama in pursuit. He cornered her in a corridor, vainly sought to kiss her. Finally he connected, but with a bite to the cheek instead of a kiss. Mrs. Yamashita countered with a right to the Finance Minister's head, then broke away...
Latin American policy, once a major item on the White House agenda, was left largely to the direction of 45-year-old Paul Daniels, head of the State Department's Office of American Republics Affairs. Twenty years as a foreign service officer had made stocky, Andover-and-Yale-bred Paul Daniels an expert on the mechanics of diplomacy, but it had also made him cautious. Moreover, long years in Latin America had made him something less than optimistic about democracy's chances there...
...Maud Rowe took the baby for an outing on a footpath, pushing Elizabeth's old royal-blue pram. Cameras with telephoto lenses clicked furiously. But the pictures showed more pram than prince. Two days later one snapped a picture that showed the top of the prince's head (see cut). Then the royal family requested editors to call off their men. A reporter remonstrated with a lady pressagent at Buck House about the royal family's impregnable reserve. "After all," she retorted, "it is a private matter, really...
Acme Newspictures tried another tack: it put a price on the baby's head. Acme would pay $2,000, it announced, for the first good exclusive picture. The offer went begging. This week Society Photographer Cecil Beaton went to the palace to take pictures of mother & child. But the world was likely to keep right on waiting until the official pictures were released, probably after this week's christening...