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Word: headful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that his words are taken at their face value in other countries. They don't realize that that is just Winnie's way." Attlee was so pleased at this passage that he glanced challengingly at the blazing sun, then set his soft black felt hat on his head and resumed. The Tory platform, he said, was "one of the most dishonest documents I have ever read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: With Banners | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Bathed in sweat, his head reeling, he huddled at the foot of the altar until the church was opened at dawn, then crept out with the ornaments wrapped in a parcel under his arm. Said Sanchez last week: "I wanted to build at home an image of the Virgin and Child, decorate them with the jewels, then adore them when they behaved well, and spank them when they behaved badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hate & Vengeance | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Louis B. Mayer, party of the first part in many a six-figure contract, had his own option picked up by Loew's, Inc. Presi dent Nicholas M. Schenck, who signed him up to head Loew's-owned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a few more years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...broken out.) Pain does not even give protection against mosquito bites, he argues, because it is felt only after the mosquito "has sucked your blood and perhaps infected you with malaria." Soresi does not mention the fact that after one or two mosquito bites, most people know enough to head for a screened porch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short Circuit | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...rejuvenated bureau, explained Bishop John F. Noll of Fort Wayne, Ind., head of the reorganization committee, will "send out publicity releases [and] answer questions by secular papers regarding Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Attack | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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