Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oriole's egg, a pine cone or a test tube. At 71 he is president of the Lancaster County Historical Society, belongs to the American Chemical Society, the American Ornithologists Union and the Pennsylvania Forestry Association. He is also custodian of the Audubon Society's sanctuary for bald eagles on Mount Johnson Island in the lower Susquehanna River...
...block the steamroller. Although he and 25 members of his party, now the sole opposition in Parliament, dropped blank votes in the basket, the result was foregone. Next day Bierut named husky, hard-faced, 35-year-old Josef Cyrankiewicz, an able and energetic left-wing Socialist, as Premier. Egg-bald Cyrankiewicz is a onetime artillery officer who was liberated by U.S. troops from the infamous German prison camp at Mauthausen. He has come up fast. Right-wing Socialists accuse him of double-crossing them and swinging to the left after advising them not to. He gets along well with...
When Budapesters first saw the bright, handsome new forints (introduced last August just as the pengo was inflated to 500,000,000,000,000,000 times its original value), they compared the coins with bald, homely Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, who was advertised as the father of the forint, and cracked: "It must have had a beautiful mother...
Yousuf Karsh is a lively, bald-pated little man with a mission: to photograph the faces of the great men of his time. That became his ambition after he came to Canada from Turkish Armenia at 15 and went to work in his uncle's photographic studio in Sherbrooke, Que. Eventually Yousuf Karsh set up his own studio in Ottawa and before long his dramatic, three-dimensional portraits had made him Ottawa's top photographer. Then, on Dec. 30, 1941, Winston Churchill came to town...
...Congressmen at work. On the floor of both houses the tempo was slow, and it was possible to study types. There was the Long Haired Southerner or Patronage Ouzel; the Snapping Southerner or Mississippi Valley Shrill; the rare Old Shaggy or Great Trumpeting Republican and a few aging Bald New Dealers. And, of course, there were droves of newly elected Mute Republicans, all harrumphing softly and rattling paper with an anxious air of authority...