Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tacho, his wide-brimmed campaign hat jammed on his balding head, was characteristically cheerful. "I like a fight," he roared. "I'm not afraid of anything ahead. If I didn't have the strength to stay here, then I'd get the hell...
...were bird fanciers, in a way. Every year, when the sooty tern returned to the island to nest on the volcanoes, there was a bloody struggle over finding its first egg. The man who found it ran to the top of the mountain while the others shouted, "Shave your head, you have the egg." He shaved his head and painted it red while the losers slashed themselves with sharp instruments...
...take up religion seriously on his own. A friend came down with typhoid and, feeling that he must somehow help, Knox lived on bread & butter for six weeks. When the friend died, Knox prayed for him 15 minutes daily "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity ... I must have 'power to attend to the Lord without impediment...
...goal line, as University School won, 32-0. A long-jointed broken field runner who used his blockers well, Jerry has scored 17 touchdowns this season, to lead all of the Cleveland area schoolboys. In the family, he is regarded as the best of all the Conways. He will head for Yale next year...
...appointment came as a surprise to Oxonians, probably including John Lowe himself. When Vice Chancellor W.T.S. Stallybrass was killed in an accident a fortnight, ago (he was the first ever to die in office), his job should normally have gone to the next senior college head-Dr. John R. H. Weaver, president of Trinity. Dr. Weaver declined the appointment for reasons of health. Next in line: Dr. Cecil Maurice Bowra, warden of Wadham, who was at Harvard as a visiting professor and did not want to interrupt his visit to return to England. So the appointment fell to Lowe...