Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the disputants traveled to Washington. There, at the head of a delegation of 71 officials of the nation's steel companies, Fairless met a very weary-looking Phil Murray. They posed together for photographers. Said Ching: "Let us all say 'cheese' when we have our picture taken so we will look pretty." Then they got down to business in the Labor building...
This unprecedented procedure set off a series of scandals which startled even the most resigned of Philadelphians. The head of the amusement-tax division hanged himself. A water-department official slashed his wrists with a razor blade (he had been taking bribes for jamming the mechanism of city meters and handing out free water to those who paid off). One official was cited for impeachment and 16 were indicted by a grand jury...
...years ago. He blandly told the court that the name "Philip" appeared on his birth certificate, unbeknown to him or his parents, because one of his aunts "had a peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling, he was also cited for contempt...
Fancy Knots. When the shooting war was over, Franks ("the greatest civilian discovery of the war") could have been head of Britain's Steel Board or had his pick of many glittering big business jobs. He turned them all down to go back to Oxford as provost of his old college. But the following year, in 1947, when a stricken and bankrupt Europe was feverishly fingering the hope just held out by the Marshall Plan, Ernie Bevin, now Foreign Minister, called Franks from his cloister to head the British delegation to the 16-nation Paris conference...
When the conference ended, Franks was picked to head the European delegation to Washington to lay before the U.S. the 16 nations' thoughts and plans. To a spellbound conference of U.S. officials...