Word: headful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noise I get is my head touching and getting these vibrations through the windshield...
...charge. Cornered three days later in his shabby South Kensington room, Podola was brought out to a police car looking considerably the worse for wear. Two policemen were half dragging him by the arms, and a third walked just ahead as if to keep him from pitching forward. His head was covered with a sack...
Konrad Adenauer caught his toe in a rabbit hole, banged his knee, limped home to Germany from a vacation in Italy, and appeared before a meeting of the Christian Democrat parliamentary group leaning on a cane. "Gentlemen," said the bunny-bugged Chancellor, "I did not fall on my head. Remember this in case you hear something else...
Stevens confidently expects to turn a profit on Property. "There's been a firm connection between writing and money in my head," says he, "ever since I was ten and my father* paid me a penny a line for learning Shakespeare...
...economics was turned upside down." He also got a lot of it from doing. From 1920 to 1928 he was a League of Nations economics consultant, trying to make the economies of eastern Europe work. After two years in business in Sweden, he returned to Basel in 1931 as head economist for the Bank of International Settlements, from which he was chosen to head the Fund...