Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eleven years ago the Russians first conceived the idea of surmounting a soaring edifice of pillared concrete with a 328-ft. statue of Lenin in stainless steel (see cut). The crown of his bald pate was to tower 1,364 ft. above the nearby tomb in which his embalmed body lay. (New York's Empire State building would reach only to the statue's midriff...
These amendments seemed to amount to a bald declaration of "no confidence" in the Big Three design for peace. French Information Minister Henri Teitgen heightened this impression when he said: "France is in favor of collective security, but does not believe the Dumbarton Oaks plan, as changed at Yalta, comes up to France's requirements. . . . France's definition of collective security is the construction of a real international democracy,with an international government with authority to decide disputes and enforce decisions. France does not think Dumbarton Oaks-Yalta meets such conditions...
...Shrill, scratch-penned Eleanor Jewett of Chicago's America-First Tribune put up a bald landscape of rolling hills and lowering sky, seen through a purplish haze of late-afternoon dusk: The Day Ends by Charles Kilgore...
Last week the House, which clearly wants a hand in World War II treaty-making, was quick to respond to this maneuver of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bald Representative Carl Hinshaw, California Republican, promptly introduced a brace of resolutions under which the Senate could consider treaties only after the House had approved their consideration and passed validating legislation. Representatives hoped it might start a slam-bang fight over the Senate's jealously guarded treaty monopoly...
Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, the bald, monolithic professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University who perfected FM, proposed a compromise-just a short move next door, say, to a 48-to-66 band. Major Armstrong probably knows more than any other man alive about FM, which is about as easy to understand at first glance as a menu written in Sanskrit. Beginners might start with some of the following facts...