Word: headiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winners looked more like close-cropped Spartans cut loose in Athens. Donning black robes and boarding bicycles, they found Oxford a startling experience. They met their tutors, pondered invitations to join the Zen Buddhist club, learned where to sneak in after college gates close at midnight. The headiest shock was Oxford's enfolding leisure. Suddenly there was time to talk all night, to sleep until noon. "Back there," mused the go-go Air Academy's Brad Hosmer, 21, "I barely had time to read a book a week." Muttered another unbound lieutenant: "I keep thinking I ought...
...represented separate aspects of the tormented hero's character. Three years later he persuaded Actor Burgess Meredith to quit his role as Sakini in Teahouse of the August Moon, be anchor prince in a four-hero Hamlet. Last week Baker stood by as 115 student actors presented his headiest experiment: a complex, three-hour dramatization of Thomas Wolfe's sprawling novel. Of Time and the River...
...only had Princess Grace given birth to a son and heir in March, but Monaco had enjoyed its headiest and gayest season since the war. Yet for His Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III, 35, it was a time of continual vexation. Ever since the new 18-man legislative council took office in January, the prerogatives of Europe's last absolute monarch had come under serious question...
...squadron. In 1936, after four years of flying pursuit planes in Hawaii, he was brought back to the U.S. for staff duty, and by the time the U.S. entered World War II he was assistant chief of staff for Air Intelligence, with a growing service reputation as the headiest young staff officer in the Air Corps. From then on, his rise into the military stratosphere was at missile speed. Tapped by the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold ("I need somebody to help me do my thinking"), Norstad became a peripatetic planner. Starting off as air operations officer for General...
...Buddha-faced, butcher-fisted Jim Richardson seemed by talent and temperament to have been a natural-born Hearst-man, he also had the luck to land in Los Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...