Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the President's office, Board Chairman Carroll Daugherty, New Dealing professor of business economics at Northwestern University, polished his rimless glasses. Judge Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, removed his hat from his large, pompadoured head. David Cole, Paterson, N.J. lawyer and veteran mediator, dressed in a well-draped tan suit, paused to pass a word with reporters. Then the three of them went in to the President to discuss their findings and point out their salient conclusions...
...into Clark Hoover's barbershop. Inside, a six-year-old boy with a white apron around his neck was sitting astride a raised hobbyhorse. The barber stood beside him clipping busily. Wordlessly, Howard Unruh aimed his pistol. He shot the boy on the hobbyhorse through the chest and head, then fired again and killed the barber...
Best Choice. St. Laurent moved into the cabinet like a veteran, applied his quick, logical and incisive lawyer's mind to every problem that came his way. As early as 1943, Mackenzie King told intimates that St. Laurent was the best choice to succeed him as head of the government. When King, after 21 years as Prime Minister, stepped down last November, St. Laurent moved into his office in the East Block of the Parliament Buildings...
...feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with Gallic arm gestures and nods of his head...
...Bolivian ambassador called on Juan Perón's new Foreign Minister, young Hipolito Jesus Paz, four times within twelve hours. How was it, he demanded, that the M.N.R.'s Carmelo Cuellar, thought to be safely out of mischief in Argentina, had turned up at the head of a rebel column...