Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Commons as he explained just how far Britain could loosen its belt. Only thrice did he pick up the little teacup from its green tray and fortify himself with sips of rum and milk.* Once he drew a laugh as he absently rubbed his high, sun-browned bald dome, announced a reduction in the purchase tax on hair-waving and drying machinery...
Latourette, a precise, energetic, bald bachelor of 61, lives behind monumental breastworks of filing cards and follows a daily timetable so efficiently that he found time to dash off five other books* while beavering away at his vast History. Completed in 1944, the work appears next week in a new edition (Harper, $22.50) to meet the demand of scholars who have hailed it as one of the most important studies of the last decade...
Pedro Leao Velloso was the watchful Brazilian. A lawyer and seasoned diplomat, Dr. Velloso sat silently and glistened; his dark green glasses, the scarflike handkerchief that poured from his breast pocket, the glistening mahogany-hued dome of his bald pate all shone...
...records, are on the current jukebox best-selling lists. Como sings them straighter than slow-drag Sinatra, but with somewhat less ease than The Groaner, Crosby. Says Como: "I can't explain the different techniques in Crosby, Sinatra and me, unless it's that one's bald and one has curly hair and I wear my hair short...
Colonel Guy T. Viskniskki is celebrated as a newspaper doctor, an efficiency expert. He is tough, ruthless, and almost as bald as a hard-boiled egg. Called in to operate on the frumpy Portland Oregonian in 1934, Efficiency Man Viskniskki took one look and laid about him with his cleaver. Deadheads rolled, deadwood was chopped away, and the "old lady of Alder Street" woke up with her face lifted...