Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until the Yanks came. Midway through World War II, General Eisenhower's forces crossed from North Africa to occupy the bald, sirocco-scorched island of Sardinia (pop. 950,000) as a bomber base for the invasion of southern France. They ran up against the malaria that infested the coastal marshes and that throughout history has kept invaders back and the islanders down. Thereafter, by one of the most intensive campaigns ever waged against malaria, U.S. and Italian DDT teams banished the anopheles mosquito that had helped stunt the development of a people long accounted the smallest of Italians. Since...
...closed caucus of Republican members. "We simply cannot send this bill to the President," Massachusetts' gnarled Joe Martin told the waverers among his colleagues. "It's a bad bill, and I'm sure he won't accept it." On the other side, Texas' egg-bald Sam Rayburn and other Democratic leaders were telling the doubtful among the Democrats that the bill might provide the only way to get a Democrat elected President in November. A key proposition in the Democratic reasoning: if Congress should pass the bill and the President should veto it (as many...
...sharp each morning in a white clapboard house in Milan, Mich., a slim, bald man bounces out of bed, pads into the bathroom, takes up an electric razor in each hand and mows off the night's growth of beard. To Generalist John Sherrod DeTar (rhymes with guitar), 54, new president of the A.A.G.P., this ambidextrous start of the day is just commonsense efficiency. "I have a lot of things to do and I want to save time to do them...
...famous in Washington. Office staffers have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree as a prankster at an American Legion convention...
...mile at least 10 m.p.h. slower. To get such spectacular performance out of his big (340 h.p.) car, Kiekhaefer kept his highly trained mechanics working for weeks at tuning the engine, test-driving the car, turning the tires down on a tire lathe until they were as bald as racing rubber, and perfectly balanced. All Flock had to do to beat his less elaborately prepared competitors was push the accelerator to the floorboard and steer...