Word: bald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suicide. Many a U.S. airman and war veteran could recall Ernst Udet as a stumpy, laughing, likeable little man with a thirst for beer and information, a man of many questions who carefully avoided questioners. The last photograph of him alive, as approved by the censor, showed a bald, grim, tight-lipped man looking considerably older than his 45 years...
Little egg-bald Speaker Rayburn had added up the list of bolters. The answer was disaster...
...London last week the right to habeas corpus was stoutly defended, war or no war, by bald, handsome James Richard Baron Atkin, 74, in a dissenting opinion likely to rank with some of those of the late great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Despite Kennedy's bearishness, the Hertz group chose to retain control, putting in a new management headed by bald, pleas ant Barney Balaban, oldtime Chicago exhibitor...
...long as it would take a good track man to run a half-mile, bald, burly Arthur Starnes plummeted down through miles of air last week. During that minute and 56 seconds he dropped five and a half miles (29,300 feet), hit a speed of 190 m.p.h., felt the temperature change from 46° below zero (Fahrenheit) to mild 60° above. When he cracked his chutes at 1,500 feet, he was pretty sure he had had an experience that would not only keep green the name of Arthur Starnes but somehow help national defense...