Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulganin and Mister Khrushchev, preceded always by the heavy-footed scuffle of scores of security guards, waved their hats to thousands, dispensed autographs to clusters of children, gaped with tourist-like awe at sights and monuments. At one point, when a crowd sprinkled rose petals on Khrushchev's bald pate, Bu1ganin happily brushed them off with his wide-brimmed straw. Visiting an ancient observatory, Khrushchev asked for his horoscope, but was told it would take weeks of reading the stars to prepare. With a huge floral wreath, the two went to India's most important memorial, Raj Ghat...
...occasions by a narrow margin, and bringing curious tales about the "fossils of the future." Rhino & Cures. The biggest of the threatened animals is the Indian rhinoceros, of which only a few hundred survive. A creature that only an animal man could love, it has the temper of a bald hornet, the odor of cattle-boat bilge water and the bodily build of a Sherman tank...
...their decision to recommend expansion largely by their "sense that the problem of educating large numbers of our young people is so enormous and so important to our country that no college for whatever reason can afford to stand aside." "For whatever reason" is in itself a rather bald statement. If such attention to the problem were to mean lowering Harvard's educational standards, the Overseers are wrong. Aside from this objection, however, the Overseers' reason leads to their recommendation for expansion only with the intervening unstated premise that the only way for Harvard to deal with the national problem...
4444The barbers said that any price raise on haircuts will be applicable to crew cuts, trims, and haircuts for partially bald...
Months later Shigeko was still bald and beet-complexioned, so she was dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...