Word: headon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stand by for barrage,' comes over the ship's communication system. One plane is circling around. It's now at 300 or 400 yards, approaching us from the port side. It's coming closer headon, and I see a torpedo drop. A watcher shouts, 'Stand by for torpedo,' and the tin fish is streaking directly...
...Mind of the South is not an "authoritative" book. It is laden rather with personal intelligence than with documented information. It is by no means complete; the whole ugly and fascinating complex of problems surrounding the Negro, for example, is never examined headon. But Cash is honest, temperate, eloquent and kind, and he is definitely in command of his subject. Anything written about the South henceforth must start where he leaves...
...Census. New York's Legislature resolved to urge Congress to eliminate "personal questions," chiefly the two on incomes. Similar action by the U. S. Senate was postponed until Senators could read their mail. Meantime in Kenosha, Wis., Cobbler James Rosselli and Census Taker John W. Girman met headon. As a preview of what may happen in April when the Government begins knocking on 132,000,000 citizens' doors, the U. S. watched the bout with considerable interest...
Less than 24 hours later, on a single-track line north of Lake Constance, a passenger and a freight train collided headon, killing 52, injuring 40. Railway officials in Markdorf and Klustern, between which towns the trains were running blamed faulty signals, were arrested nevertheless...