Word: balding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right side of the crowded hearing room last week sat representatives of U.S. industry; on the left, representatives of the nation's unions. Directly behind the 13-man labor committee, chairmanned by Utah's bald and scholarly Elbert Duncan Thomas, sat Mrs. Taft placidly knitting on a sweater for a grandson. The expression on her face was a gauge of the battle's progress. Most of the time Martha Taft looked as if she thought it was going all right...
Doughnuts in the Kitchen. Soon all Borculo was working side by side at the project. At the committee table, the white-haired Protestant dominee rubbed shoulders with the boyish Catholic priest, the leader of the socialist youth movement, and the bald-headed director of the bank. In Borculo kitchens, sweating huisvrouwen labored tirelessly, preparing thousands of doughnutlike oliebollen to sell for a quarter apiece. Every evening in the grammar-school gymnasium, lights burned far into the night while amateur Borculo acrobats sought in vain to match Butcher Bertus van Puffelen's marvelous tumbling feats. A crowd of giggling farm...
...Battery D began to give him grudging respect. He was fair. He claimed no special privileges and showed no favors. Then one black night, on a bald knoll in the Vosges-as the boys told it-Battery D fired the first salvo of the war for the green 35th Division. Promptly a German battery answered back. A Battery D sergeant yelled: "They got us bracketed. Every man for himself." Panic seized the Battery. Over the din came the voice of Battery D's prissy captain: "I'm gonna shoot the first son-of-a-bitch who leaves...
August Simolke was never one for dramatics. He was 67, tall, skinny, bald and unassuming. He had been married for 44 years, had fathered 11 children. He worked in a Chicago baby furniture factory, and was a good provider for his worried-looking 62-year-old wife, Jennie. Nevertheless, last summer, August Simolke did quite a dramatic thing-after a quarrel with his foreman, he walked off his job and vanished...
...years bald, bespectacled Dean Weigle has headed the top-rank, nondenominational theological seminary atop New Haven's Prospect Street hill. Under his "liberal evangelical" administration the school's enrollment grew from about 150 Bachelor of Divinity students to the present 250. More than 100 of his former pupils are leaders of other schools and religious organizations...