Word: balding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blandly, at first, the Russians spelled out the ostensible reason for such severities. They were decreed "in the interest of expediting travel." Then egg-bald Colonel Alexander Tulpanov indicated why the Russians were jittery. He thundered to a German audience: "Spies from the British and American zones come in masses to Berlin and from there into the Soviet zone to carry out economic, political and military espionage...
...Nastiest Ole Man." Last week, hunched in the prisoners' dock, earphones clamped to his seemingly petrified bald head, his body weirdly stiffened (he suffers from arthritis of the spine and hardening of the arteries), he was still a perfect bureaucrat. His only concern was an efficient defense. He worked furiously, scribbling endless notes of rebuttal...
...bald head gleaming under the photographers' lights, gimlet-eyed Benny Meyers last week heard himself declared guilty on three counts. Bleriot H. Lamarre had testified that Meyers had ordered him to lie to a Senate investigating committee about Meyers' connection with Aviation Electric Co. of Dayton, Ohio (TIME, Dec. 1). Meyers had taken $150,000 out of the company while paying Lamarre, as dummy president, a grudging $50 a week. Benny Meyers had not even offered character witnesses...
There was little jazz left on 52nd Street. Even the customers had changed. There were fewer crew haircuts, pipes and sports jackets; more bald spots, cigars and paunches. Said an old swing musician : "It was a pretty rugged street to start off with and you couldn't hurt it much. But it's lost its charm...
...figures of the present century." London University Physicist J. D. Bernal said he was "one of the greatest . . . geniuses of his time." What made Pyke so extraordinary was his consistent belief that a human being could reason his way through any problem. That belief rammed Geoffrey Pyke's bald head into-and sometimes through-one stone wall after another...