Word: headful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. strode jauntily out of the Army's Walter Reed Hospital one morning at week's end, a walking testimonial to the report of his doctors. Having examined Ike for two days from head to toe, including barium studies of the gastrointestinal tract, Army Surgeon General Leonard Heaton reported: "The best results we ever had."* Beamed Ike: "It was so good that I would like to go back oftener...
...state trip to drum up support for Symington. Around the end of November, Missouri's Governor James Blair will depart on a similar missionary trek to sell the Symington cause, especially to Democratic Governors. Symington's behind-the-scenes strategy board, made up of five Missourians headed by Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford and Congressman Brown, is convinced that any head-on push for the nomination would hurt rather than help Symington's chances of winning...
...head of a wartime Senate committee investigating defense production, Missouri's Senator Harry Truman looked closely at Emerson and "could never find anything wrong with it," as he put it. Impressed with Symington and his performance at Emerson, President Truman summoned him to the White House in mid-1945. "Stu," said Truman, "I want to dump a load of coal on you." He asked Symington to serve as head of the Surplus Property Board (later Surplus Property Administration), charged with setting policies for disposing of some $30 billion worth of Government property left over from the war, ranging from...
Truman persuaded Symington to stay on in Washington as head of the National Security Resources Board. In April 1951, in the midst of the influence-peddling scandals that rocked the Administration, Truman asked Symington to take one more "load-of-coal" job for him: tidying up the scandal-ridden Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington opened up RFC records to goldfish-bowl scrutiny by the press, fired employees tangled in the influence-peddling web. It was dreary, thankless work. In early 1952, his cleanup chores done, he resigned and went back to St. Louis, intending to get back into moneymaking...
Just as he was recoiling from this disappointment, a head turned in the crowd and he saw Miss Schroeder. It was certainly her. Even from where he sat he could see her hair net and notice her attentiveness to her neighbour. Miss Schroeder occupied the place next to Lucius in the stacks, and their relationship was unclear, for they had never spoken. But often when she was out he would slip into her alcove and admire her books. And today she was at the game with someone else...