Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...befuddled by bangi (raw marijuana). They were under arrest, he said, as Communist spies. Griggs was ordered to squat on a lawn directly across the street from the Ghanaian embassy. Five feet away a pair of Congolese soldiers lay prone, their rifles cocked and aimed at Griggs's head, with orders to shoot if firing broke out across the street. After an hour, word of Griggs's predicament reached the head of the Congo army, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, who sent an emissary in time to rescue Griggs-but not in time to save Griggs's car, which...
...first time, Western correspondents in Moscow were permitted to refer openly in their dispatches to the Russian-Chinese quarrel, were even allowed to quote "well-informed" sources on the line-up of forces within the Red summit meeting. When hollow-cheeked Liu Shao-chi, Red China's titular head of state, delivered a scathing four-hour denunciation of Khrushchev's policy, the varied reactions in his audience clearly revealed the true quality of the dispute between Peking and Moscow. Outwardly an ideological quarrel, it is in fact a fight for power between Russia, the established conservative, seeking...
Last week, opening his campaign to become West Germany's next Chancellor, West Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt, 46, decided to meet some ugly whispers head on. Enemies were saying he was born a bastard and, during World War II, "turned his back on Germany" to become "one of the enemy." To a Social Democratic Party congress in Hannover, Brandt said: "It is true. I have been called Willy Brandt for 'only' the past 28 years." He had adopted the name at 19, when he fled his native town of Lübeck to work...
Once under way, the pros' artful dodgers seem to be running in all directions at once. "I fake with every part of my body," says the Cleveland Browns' Bobby Mitchell (6 ft., 190 Ibs.). "I use the shoulder shake and I use the head shake and I wiggle the hips. They all help to throw the tackier off balance." For Mitchell, the easiest defensive backs to fool are the fastest of foot. "They come up quickly and commit themselves right away. A slower one is harder to go all the way on. When...
McCloskey will head the nine man committee which was created by the Faculty at its last meeting. He said yesterday that the report would probably not be "any deep empirical look at the matter, but an assembling of the arguments pro and con." In this respect he compared the proposed report to a set of lawyer's beliefs, rather than an attempted solution of the issues...