Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse-faced, clean-shaven, lipless veteran of World War I who told his story coldly. Weak-chinned, pompadoured Reinhard Retslow, 36, an agent of the Secret Field Police, was bored, contemptuous. Lieut. Hans Ritz, 24, was a small man with a caved-in chest, a gnome-like bald head and an infantile expression. The fourth defendant, Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov, was a Russian who had hired himself out as a chauffeur of a Nazi death van; beneath close-drawn eyebrows his eyes peered sharply at the court as the tribunal secretary read the four men's confessions. Their crimes ranged...
Died. George Brant Bridgman, 79, U.S. art's top-ranking teacher of anatomy, for 44 years a lecturer at Manhattan's Art Students League; after long illness; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Small, bald, Canadian-born Bridgman studied under Gerome and Boulanger in Paris, developed in his famed Constructive Anatomy (100,000 copies since 1920) the analogy between the human figure and geometrical forms. He proposed to teach students how to draw the human figure accurately, let them develop their own esthetic approach to the subject. He had 80,000 students, including Cartoonists Percy Crosby and Otto Soglow, Illustrators...
...bald communiqué from Bougainville said: "Our ground forces enlarged their perimeter. ..." From that bleached and pickled bit of news, one Marine, back in Washington from the beachhead on Empress Augusta Bay, reconstructed a nightmare narrative. The story of stocky, red-haired Technical Sergeant Harold Azine, in civilian life a radio-program director, on Bougainville a combat correspondent...
...regular Coast Guard sometimes scoffs. The TRs themselves keep happily busy. They even accept cheerfully the regulars' nickname: bald-headed SPARS...
When the Fifth's infantry, operating mostly between midnight and dawn, began the tough job of mopping up the bald, craggy peaks, they came upon Germans stunned, demoralized, even driven insane by the barrage. But enough of the enemy remained to make Allied progress slow. There were hills here-Monastery, La Maggiore, La Difensa-that would go down in the infantry's memory with Tunisia's 609 and Long Stop...