Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down? While Japanese were obligingly suggesting names for war criminals-among them Shigemitsu, Konoye and Umezu - the No. 1 Japanese war criminal of them all, billiard-bald, razor-tongued Hideki Tojo, who as Premier led his people to war on December 7, 1941, took matters into his own hands. The day after two Associated Press correspondents forced their way into his house for an interview, U.S. Army intelligence officers turned up to take Tojo away for questioning. The irate warmonger made faces at them througlf a window, retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations...
...European war and now at liberty, saw in China a theater where action was promised and there was room at the top. Lieut. General William H. Simpson, commander of the U.S. Ninth Army, who perhaps will become Wedemeyer's deputy, toured part of the China front last week. Bald "Texas Bill" was impressed. Said he: "From what I've seen and heard in the past ten days I'm convinced of one thing-the China theater is making a grand contribution toward speedy conclusion...
...whose bald head shows scars of crusted ringworm suffered during his youth Dr. Ronchese suspects of being a European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...
Commodore Worrall R. Carter, the bald, bony-faced commander of Service Suadron 10, had six types of naval repair ships at Ulithi (one for radio and radar alone). His flotilla included a drydock for destroyers, tenders to make emergency repairs on big ships like bomb-blasted Franklin, Ticonderoga and Intrpid. He claimed that Ulithi's water-taxi service, which ran between ships and shore was the world's largest - more than 400 small boats manned by more than 1,000 coxswains...
Some of the Nazis resented their enforced association with such low characters as bald, bewhiskered Jew-baiter Julius Streicher and the disconsolate ex-führer of the Labor Front, Robert Ley. But all were forced to eat their plain meals together...