Word: balding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couples managed to produce the regulation one-child family). They chirped away politely in Monolingua-the global language in which it was impossible to say anything unkind. "Is this your first trip to California?" asked one of the ladies, who looked devastating in the gold wig that covered her bald astromentality (all Astromentalists were bald...
...stage Indians and popping glass balls with a pistol (loaded with bird shot) were ready to believe anything about him. For two decades Bill crossed and recrossed the U.S., beaming when women swooned at his bearded beauty. When he died in Denver in 1917 he was broke and partly bald, but his legend was unabashed...
Szell, 48, is a tall, near-bald, thick-spectacled Czech-Hungarian, who conducted the Berlin State Opera B.H. (Before Hitler). A stern, formal leader, he has since 1942 conducted some of the Metropolitan Opera's best-disciplined performances. He plans to add eight men to the Cleveland orchestra, to bring its membership to 92. Said he: "A new leaf will be turned over with a bang! People talk about the New York, the Boston, and the Philadelphia. Now they will talk about the New York, the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland." Thus top success was in sight...
...small post in the revolutionary government. In time he decided that revolutions can reform practically anything except man. So he became a philosophic conservative of the most unrepentant kind -the repentant revolutionist. For some. 50 years he sounded the emotional overtones of this position in verse that ranged from bald simplicity...
United Animal Kingdom. In Tower, Minn., a power company's line inspectors, sick & tired of being attacked by dogs, bees and goats on check-up trips through the woods, got an airplane, which was promptly attacked by bald eagles...