Word: headful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly by bad weather. As an extra safeguard, an Air Force C-47 at Kabul will make constant, firsthand weather reports to Draper while he is en route from Karachi. If bad weather does hit, Draper will know about it in plenty of time to skip Kabul and head for New Delhi. Hopefully the party will try Kabul again on the way back from New Delhi to Europe...
...Queen herself would be coming out in 1961 to pay a postponed visit. Though the thought was delicately left unspoken, everyone knew that by then Ghana would probably be the Commonwealth's third republic, recognizing Elizabeth, as India and Pakistan do, not as Queen but merely as symbolic head of the Commonwealth...
...that ravaged Italy scarcely ruffled the courtship. When the bridge over the Po was destroyed by bombers, Francesco bought a boat and rowed across to continue his vigil. Once Angela stuffed her purse with stones, and when Francesco yearningly approached her, she hit him on the head with one. The next day, he was back, begging her forgiveness...
...weeks France's National Assembly has debated the cases of nervous Draftee Jacques Charrier, 23. cinemactor bridegroom of Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot, and Civilian Yves Saint-Laurent, 23, twice-deferred head of Paris' high-fashion House of Dior. Last week France's Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat himself spoke up: hospitalized Charrier is really "an urgent case for observation and treatment"; willowy Designer Saint-Laurent will be drafted-come hell or high fashion -next September...
Everybody agreed that James Worley, head of the English department at big (1,160 students) Fox Lane High School near Mount Kisco, N.Y., was just about the finest teacher they knew. And academic standards are high in the suburban Westchester County area, home of many a well-heeled Manhattan commuter with an eye on Harvard for his son. But last week able, balding Teacher Worley, 38, was fired. Reason: he refused to file lesson plans with the front office two weeks ahead of class...