Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brought to Moscow by Stalin in 1938 to head the secret police after Yezhov was purged. Operates the largest slavelabor economy in the world, exploiting some 14 million prisoners; also bosses the Red A-bomb project. Elected to the Politburo, 1946. Looks not like a cop but a bald, shrewdeyed, pmce-nezed scholar; is quiet, methodical, enjoys the arts, music; can be convivial or merciless. Married two children lives in a suburban dacha, commutes to work in a black bulletproof Packard that looks like a hearse. An oldtime buddy of Malenkov. Travel beyond the Iron Curtain: none...
This does not necessarily mean that the road ahead will be smooth. Thus far, Ike has done so well that he has faced little violent criticism, even from the pundits, whose stock in trade is seasoned consideration of the errors and missteps of the national Administration. But criticism, bald and bitter, is sure to come. The opposition will become solider and sharper. New foreign and domestic developments will create new problems and new challenges. The first month was a lively preliminary; the main event is still to come...
After barely three months in office, Greece's bald, immaculate and dour new Premier, Marshal Alexander Papagos, had reason to be optimistic last week. Items...
...Bueren-picked jury of West German scientists studied the astronomical society's arguments and solemnly announced the the Bueren solar theory had been demolished. His bald pate flushed with anger, the sun-gazing patent attorney refused to pay. "People who want to cash in on the money," he cried, "do not even pay attention to what I have...
Their leader is Lieut. General Peng Tso-hsi, a slight, near-bald man of 51, who commanded the Nationalist Twenty-Sixth Army until the Red victory, then crossed with what was left of his troops into Indo-China...