Word: hotheaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hothead. The Burmese streamed out of doors to pour pots of water over the ground and offer up prayers to Thi-gya-min. Early next morning, clad in bright blue, red or green skirt-like longyis and rubber bathing caps, they set out with more water for the pagodas, to wash the sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will...
...Qureshi, charged the prosecution, was a Moslem League hothead who not only led the mob outside Dr. Joshi's hospital, but fired the shot which killed the Hindu doctor. Furthermore, the prosecution produced six witnesses to prove it. All of them were Hindu or Sikh...
...Army & Navy were confident they would be asked back-but not until after the national elections next June. Meantime, not even Panama's hottest hothead could find the breath to yell "Yanqui imperialism...
Actor Olivier's Hotspur was no ranting hothead, but a feudal lord with tremendous dash-gay, sarcastic, masterful. (In Part II Actor Olivier turned up delightfully as that "forked radish," gaunt, garrulous Justice Shallow...
Public reaction to the Storni letter and its answer was divided. As the wording of the U.S. note sank in, extremely nationalistic Argentines grew hot with anger. Said one young hothead: "To hell with the U.S. We're looking toward Europe for now and after the war." Said one whose head was much cooler: "Don't think me unpatriotic, but the Government was asking...