Word: alopecia
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Sarah Breedlove was born on a cotton plantation near Delta, La., in 1867. Orphaned at age 7, married at 14, widowed at 20, Breedlove earned a subsistence living as a laundress in St. Louis, Mo. Seeking to supplement her income--and cure her case of alopecia, or baldness, commonly suffered by black women at the time because of scalp diseases, poor diet and stress--Breedlove became an agent for Annie Turnbo Pope Malone's Poro Co., selling its "Wonderful Hair Grower." Realizing the potential of these products, Breedlove took her daughter and $1.50 in savings to Denver, married her third...
...recycled what little thatching they have left, combing a few camouflaging strands across their brows or having "plugs" transplanted from one part of the head to another. Still others have poured their hopes into the creams and tonics of quacksalvers, seeking the ever elusive miracle cure for the androgenic alopecia -- male-pattern baldness -- that plagued them...
...hides a lot," explained Gernreich, "and body hair is too sexual. I don't want to confuse the idea of freedom with sexual nakedness. Openness and honesty call for no covering of any kind." For Thomas Broom, 30, Rudi's male model, the prospect of all-over alopecia held no horror: "I've wanted to shed my hair for a long time. I have this theory that when I do, I will shed other things too-maybe my inhibitions." But Renee Holt, 22, approached her barber's appointment with anxiety. Fondly caressing her long golden tresses...
Radar operators during the war were frequently worried men. They worked with novel transmitters which sent out powerful beams of little-known ultrashort waves. What effect might these have on human flesh and blood? Some servicemen feared alopecia (loss of hair) or leucopenia (loss of white corpuscles). But most of all they talked about sterility. A few demanded lead pants or jockstraps...
...more than 50 days, three hours a day, the radar blasted 45 kilowatts of ten-centimeter waves at the little animals. No hair fell out-no alopecia...