Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sergeant Baldassare, bald and toothless, his shoulder awry from a Japanese blow, had kept himself alive to say a little more than that, and in different tones. He stopped outside the courtroom and made a fierce little speech...
President Spaak, looking like a bald, cosmic frog, took the chair. He guided UNO so well during the first three days that some suggested him for the prized post of Secretary General...
...blinked misty eyes, hesitated for words, said simply that he was "deeply touched." Then his easygoing composure returned. He rubbed his pate and quipped: "One thing I feel thoroughly certain of-it must be a bald peak...
...small, half-paralyzed Archbishop Jules-Géraud Saliege of Toulouse, who during France's occupation openly attacked German treatment of Jews and conscription of Frenchmen; massive, blue-blooded Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Munster, whose anti-Nazi sermons and pastorals nearly cost him his life; benign, bald Bishop Konrad von Preysing of Berlin, who, when the Nazis came into power, said publicly: "We have fallen into the hands of criminals and fools." Typical Spanish appointment: small, bespectacled Archbishop Enrique Pla y Deniel of Toledo, who was the first prelate appointed in Spain after Franco signed his agreement...
...Russians, thin, sandy-haired, serious Peter Ivanovich Alexejev and bald, blue-eyed, humorous Mikhail Alexeievich Sergeichic, were the faces of UNRRA in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Two Americans, Buell Maben and Spurgeon M. Keeny, represented UNRRA to the Greeks and Italians...