Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazines had stacked up on 'me and I told the Old Sarge, T'm going to bring some of these over to the old duffers.' Sarge shook his head and said 'Do you want to start a riot?' But I persisted and at first I wasn't too welcome ('Damn old hen come asnoopin''). I let the insults slide over me and kept bringing the magazines. Now, believe it or not, I have the old devils talking to each other and we even have sessions of discussion on topics of interest...
Porter has had a long career in administrative and legal public offices. Recently, he has been head of the Office of Price Administration and Chief of the U.S. Economic Mission to Greece...
...booklets and newsletters and so on, I began to view with alarm a little. Not that they can do any harm by themselves. But when you get a large organization, full of pep and eager to do something with social significance, and without a single thought in its collective head that has anything to do with what is going on in the world except that it likes "our American way of life," you have the perfect set-up for any effective demagogue to take over so long as he seems to be for the "American system...
...takes a swipe at the ball in Tuesday's game against Amherst. The action shown here led to one of the Crimson's three goals. Estin bounced the ball off the opposing Amherst fullback. It caromed over to hit the Amherst man at the extreme left on the head and skidded into the nets...
...rest of the story concerns the hero's love affairs and other tried & true situations and characters familiar in historical romances: old Madam Inman, the head of the clan; the malicious Federalists and Jefferson's Embargo Act; the great storm at sea; the brilliant and hysterical girl; the cheers when the long-overdue ship reaches Salem harbor again. The Running of the Tide is no worse than most historical novels, but no better either...