Word: headmanned
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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...
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...
...midst of all its woes, the British press last week had something to console it: Witty, intelligent Sir Gerald Campbell, recently promoted from a berth as Senior Minister of the British Embassy in Washington to a more important job as headman of the British information services in the U.S., was in London fighting the Battle of Bloomsbury on behalf of better news...