Word: hothead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hothead. In Salt Lake City, arrested or willful destruction of property, Norman Doyle Curtis was charged with setting Eire to the city jail...
...vengeful enemies. The 40-year-old editor of Tribune da Imprensa (circ. 50,000) has been beaten by thugs for criticizing the army, arrested for exposing police graft, jailed four times for political reasons, attacked in his home after accusing a high officer of corruption. Recently a pistol-toting hothead tried but failed to provoke the editor to a duel...
...next day, before a jammed Knesset, Premier Moshe Sharett defied hothead cries for war and promised: "Israel . . . has no intention of embarking on aggression or provocation." The Parliament unanimously voted him confidence, endorsed his moderate course of appealing to the U.N. for redress against Jordan. But would moderation prevail...
Chicago Schooling. Habitually less concerned than Americans about the menace of international Communism, the British had hoped by the example of good manners and management to cool off the hothead East Indian and Negro leaders elected in backward Guiana. But the crown-appointed governor, Sir Alfred Savage, soon found that the Reds of the victorious People's Progressive Party, holding 18 of 24 seats in the legislature, were too hot to handle. Their Premier was a 33-year-old East Indian dentist named Cheddi Jagan (rhymes with pagan), a rapid-fire orator in both English and Creolise (an abused...
...Hothead. In Leeds, England, Edna Illingworth got a divorce after testifying that her husband Richard 1) tied her up in the cellar, 2) bound her hands to a nail above her head, and 3) doused her with a bucketful of water "to cool...