Word: head
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Gross, head of the State Police Drug Division, said that chemical tests run by the State Food and Drug Laboratory and the State Police Drug Division have revealed varying amounts of catnip, oregano, shredded parsley, tea, tobacco, and household seasoners mixed with the marijuana picked up in recent weeks...
...Jonathan R. Beckwith, professor of Bacteriology and Immunology and head of the team which last month succeeded in isolating a single gene, was the first to address the rally. "I'm here because I believe that Harvard is trying to force people out of their homes, using the worst taxies of a slumlord," he said...
...first. One vacation I even shunned their offer and caught a train, but it was no use. Sooner or later all of us must go. Once the airlines showed me that travelling for just and hour felt better than the ordeal of bad air, sore knees, and a weary head. I was hooked, even if they did play Muzak in the odorless terminals. The romantic forms of travel are too disorienting. I told myself, save them for the summer...
...Death is just a hallucination," she told me, patiently and conclusively, as though explaining the answer of a riddle I had given up on. With anyone else I would have laughed. "It's just an illusion that your mommy and daddy put into your head. Your mind, your brain, your, uh, ego dies, but your body-oh-it can live forever. If you're beautiful. And you are, baby," she said, looking up into my eyes with the eyes of someone who is moved by something beyond herself. "You are. Big and beautiful...
...push. As the car backed around to get in position to push, the girl ran a few steps towards the Volvo, her bare fect barely touching the hot asphalt. Then she leaped into the air, kicking both legs, throwing her arms across her chest and back, and jerking her head back in one joyful gesture. I'd never seen anything like...