Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball in his honor, the President chatted with the guests (who paid $10 a head), but declined to test the dance floor. "I'm a Baptist, you know," Harry Truman explained, "but not a lightfoot one, so I didn't learn to dance." Forty minutes later, the President was ready to leave; the next day would be a big one. ". . . Come out to the stadium tomorrow," Baptist Truman suggested, "and I'll tell you something good for your souls...
...Sandifer? He came through many a prizefight on cigarettes and a bottle of whisky, recalled the President, but "a fellow in Kansas City . . . dropped a brick on him and killed him." Then he solemnly reminded his boys that they and he must be careful not to get the big head: "Due to the fact that through luck and the good Lord you happen to have a Chief Executive of the United States, you mustn't . . . feel that you are better than the other people who served and fought for the country...
...Clapp, and found him unfit for a temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
...nincompoop," said new Army Secretary Gordon Gray) had sent an unfavorable report on Clapp to Frankfurt without clearing it with his superiors. Apparently his only sources of information were newspaper reports of TVA-hating Senator Kenneth McKellar's shabby attack on Clapp when Clapp was made head of TVA; the Senate, disregarding old Spoilsman McKellar, had confirmed Clapp. The explanation didn't satisfy Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver. Said he: "This business of smearing the names of good citizens has gone...
...Seoul police rattled up to the headquarters of the Korean National Assembly's Special Committee on National Traitors. Disarming guards, they stormed through the building, grabbing documents and arms and arresting the committee's special police. When the committee's chairman tried to stop them, the head of the raiders snapped, "We do this on the personal orders of President Rhee...