Word: headman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in the recesses of one such cavern on Tristan Island, Arthur Repetto, brother of the island's headman, found a ship's figurehead. Its ghostlike glimmer "skeered" him at first. When he went in he found a beautifully modeled maiden, nine feet high. Her hair was done up in a bun behind her head; a long cloak, which her left hand grasped, covered her dress. Her right hand held a lily to her bosom. Around her neck was carved a necklace of disks; a tasseled cord girdled her waist. On each arm was a bracelet hung with...
Undeceiving Census. Then (in 1937) the Soviet Government took a census. One question asked about religious faith. When the returns were in, the authorities took one look, gasped, ordered most of the census bureau liquidated as Trotskyists. The census is believed (since the figures were admitted by Godless Headman Yaroslavsky) to have shown that, after 20 years of intensive persecution of the Church, one-third of Russia's city population and two-thirds of Russia's peasants were still Christians, and would not conceal the fact from the official census takers...
Yesterday's practice was scrimmageless, Harlow still being wary of Old Man injury. The squad was out through a long punting drill early in the afternoon, and Comeford gave indications of being as good a punter as headman Wally Flynn. Flynn was up to snuff, too, and the pair matched booming kicks for 15 minutes. Boston also shone in the drill...
...expansion was over, rationalization could begin-a grass-roots matter. There could be more subcontracting, a fuller use of existing plants, more local cooperation, less Washington red tape. A blueprint of the new decentralization was shown in the Detroit area last week. Ernest Kanzler, WPB's local headman, sent a deputy to Grand Haven, Mich., to meet with Ottawa County's small manufacturers and expound the gospel of subcontracting. There was the familiar talk about pooling for war work; there was the familiar plea that "the nation and the war effort are depending upon the ingenuity...
...Headman of the Los Angeles County Defense Council is Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz. He can call into almost instant action some 200,000 operatives. His force includes regular cops and 15,000 emergency deputies, Legionnaires, Boy Scouts and air-raid wardens, Red Cross doctors and nurses, an air squadron of civilian flyers, who furnish their own planes...