Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expert. In Denver, Wendell Vincent, head of the local office of the Federal Food & Drug Administration, was recovering nicely from a case of food poisoning...
Next day in Austria, Anatoly Barsov was driven to the Urfahrer Bridge spanning the Danube at Linz. A U.S. captain asked him for the last time whether he was sure he wanted to be turned over to the Russians. Barsov shrugged indifferently, shook his head, as he went off to join the two Russian officers who were waiting...
...long-legged man with a slight paunch climbed into his 1948 Plymouth sedan in Washington last week, settled his Panama on his head and headed for Cleveland. The back of his car was piled with suitcases and a filing cabinet full of material for speeches. Sunday afternoon, with an ear-to-ear grin wreathing his spectacled face, he drove into Cleveland's southeast end and walked into the Cloverleaf Café. "Hey boys," said someone, "here's Senator Taft...
Police Dogs & Walkie-Talkies. To take charge of the campaign against Giuliano, Scelba announced the creation of a special force of 2,000 young carabinieri, all from mainland Italy, and all unmarried. At the head of the new command he placed Colonel Ugo Luca, a robust, taciturn ex-army officer who holds eight medals for valor. Luca planned to use tough paratroopers as ground assault troops, set up small, highly mobile units equipped with machine guns, walkie-talkies and police dogs. The Italian treasury appropriated one million lire a month for the special anti-bandit campaign...
Long-faced, buck-toothed Kameo Sadaki, caretaker of the ruined debris of the Aichi torpedo plant, shook his head, said with Nagoya's curious local pride: "We had almost 25,000 workers here. In five minutes, nothing was left. No factory in Japan was so beautifully bombed." The Aichi plant, which was 95% destroyed, is being sold for scrap metal to anyone that will carry it away. Youngish Toshio Takahashi, the plant manager, says softly: "It still seems like a dream to see all this. I suppose we should tear it down quickly, but that would cost too much...