Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then A.F.L.'s President William Green stomped in to tell the President that A.F.L. would be willing to take a new Taft-Hartley substitute-the Sims bill-with some changes. He came out of the White House shaking his head: "We're willing to give a few inches, but he's not budging...
...Navy assignment would be 62-year-old Frank Matthews' first big public job. After developing a good law practice in Omaha, he had branched out into business, become head of two loan companies, vice president of a radio-TV station, a director of other corporations. A devout Roman Catholic (he had a chapel built in his home so that priests could say Mass there), he was once supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. In 1944 Pope Pius XII made him a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword, a post entitling him to serve a turn of duty...
...Soviet sector, burly, hard-faced German cops of East Berlin's Communist-run police force hovered ominously on the edges of the crowd, eyeing the people as coldly as though they were a new consignment of concentration-camp inmates. An old Hausfrau with a shawl over her head stared defiantly back. Most passengers just waited in uneasy silence alongside their battered suitcases. These people were not running away. On their way to see relatives in the West, or to transact long-delayed business, they all expected to return...
This week the Annex played hostess to Miss Tomo Tambe, head of the English Department at Kobe. Miss Tambe has been studying the organization and administration of American women's colleges as a guest of Wellesley College since September and will return to Kobe this summer to help reorganize the senior college under the new education plan set forth by the occupation authorities...
Morison, who pulled off the absent-minded professor routine Monday afternoon, had put the briefcase on the roof of his car while struggling to unlock a jammed car door. Flushed by success after forcing the lock open, he drove off from Harvard Square with the briefcase still over his head. In due time it fell off, and Morison hastened to report the incident to the police...