Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this country we have a special kind of head start, for we can usually depend on our American press-newspapers, radio, and magazines-to give us straight facts, to keep us fully informed, to help us understand. Now television, with programs like this one, can add a new dimension: true understanding of our own history and of our future...
...strike. On Tower Hill, midday crowds gathered in the sun to hear soapbox speakers supporting labor solidarity and the strike. One of them popped out his National Health Service Acts false teeth, held them aloft triumphantly, cried gummily: "I'd never have had a tooth in me head if your fathers and my fathers hadn't stuck tergeth-er in the past for their rights. Solidarity, that's wot did it, and it'll do it again...
...cancan or chahut," says Curt Sachs' World History of the Dance, "is the enfant terrible of ... choral dances. Leg thrust and leap are its most characteristic features; the best dancer is the one who can knock the spectator's hat off his head with her foot...
...counsel, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, read to the court a full statement from his client. In it Haigh explained in detail how he had killed Mrs. Durand-Deacon by shooting her in the head, "then fetched in a drinking glass and made an incision, I think with a penknife, in the side of her neck, and collected a glass of blood which I drank." In 1944 William McSwan had been disposed of in much the same way-"I hit him on the head," dictated Haigh. "I withdrew a quantity of blood and drank...
...Boss Frank Hague demanded that the Newark News scrap a series of articles on his life which began this week. "A newspaper such as yours," he fumed, ". . . should never undertake to publish the story of my life without my express consent ... I have served 34 years as the head of the Jersey City government and I dare your newspaper to publish one dishonest act of mine ... or point to one breath of scandal or dishonesty in my administration." The News went right on with the Hague biography...