Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, gaunt man stood up before a convention of farm-equipment dealers in Washington last week and made what he thought would be a scarcely noticed speech at a barely noticed meeting. Instead it cost him his job. The man was Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, titular head of the President's economic advisers. He began his speech by skeptically questioning a glittering prediction by his economist colleague, Leon Keyserling, of a $350 billion national income by 1958, with a $4,000 minimum a year for almost every family. Mr. Truman later used this as the basis...
...Balance of the Bomb. When Omar Bradley finished his biting, indignant statement there was stunned silence in the committee room. In charging head down into the middle of the scrimmage he had given a final, climactic exhibition of the unseemly personal antagonisms which had split the nation's military chiefs. From a military standpoint he had all but blasted the Navy admirals' case. And before the week was out, torpedoed by the testimony of other non-Navy men, the Navy's arguments were little more than just afloat...
...pigeons lay headless on the very greensward of the medieval Tower of London where Anne Boleyn's head had rolled. "At night," said one of the Tower's famed Beefeaters last week, "we heard awful noises in the casements." Yeoman Quartermaster Thomas Johns set out four traps, and what he caught was enough to startle even that grizzled veteran of two wars. "I thought," he said, "I was in the wilds of Borneo. I saw nothing like this one in India." The quarry was a huge and ferocious cat whose writhing body "nearly filled the two-foot cage...
...night last week, an old gentleman in evening clothes opened the door of a Manhattan hotel ballroom and started to make his way inside. At once, the 1,500 banqueters rose from their tables, and the room rocked with applause. Educator-Philosopher John Dewey nodded his white head, smiled behind his scraggly mustache as scholars and eminent professors clapped until their hands ached. Then everyone joined in a chorus of "Happy birthday...
...yard of two for the first down, he gave the ball to his tall back who just put his head down and bulled his way through...