Word: hothead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Minister of Labor Aneurin Bevan, usually a hothead orator, softly sneered that finding a reply to Churchill was like "trying to climb up a smooth, flat surface; I can get no hold ... at any point whatever. He went on from generalization to generalization . . ." Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell said: "I have never heard from [Churchill] a speech ... so completely lacking in serious argument." As the government barrage ripped into him, Churchill squirmed, slapped his waistcoat, fumbled in his pockets, finally got to his feet, turned and looked behind him. Spellbound, the entire House watched Winnie's antics. Gaitskell...