Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been waiting for TIME to comment on the fact that we are about to have our first bald-headed President of the U.S. Is this just in keeping with the tempo of our times-that tension causes baldness? Both candidates have had their share of "headaches" and tension. Or do we have here two of the brainier men of our times proving the old wheeze that "brains and long locks can't share the same scalp...
...George Washington's portraits show that he was bald in front; James Madison, Martin Van Buren and the two Adamses lived in tense times, had bald pates to show for it; the Civil War, however, left Abraham Lincoln's splendid thatch unthinned...
Last week, on Hungary's warmest summer day, sweat gathered on Rakosi's bulging, bald head and poured down his round face as he took the last slice of the salami. The puppet Hungarian National Assembly, which usually meets for a few dutiful days twice a year, held a special session and crowned Matyas Rakosi Premier of Hungary. Appropriately, Rakosi was clad in black...
Ratcliffe is "a great ponderous man, over six feet high, very . . . dignified," with "rather good features" and a bald Websterian head. "A single glance at Mr. Ratcliffe's face showed Madeleine that she need not be afraid of flattering too grossly; her own self-respect, not his, was the only restraint..." Accordingly, she remarked with "apparent simplicity": "Was I right in thinking that you have a strong resemblance to Daniel Webster in your way of speaking...
...Stateville prison in Joliet, Ill., the warden said that Inmate Nathan Leopold, now a bald 48, who teamed with Richard Loeb in the brutal 1924 "thrill murder" of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, has been a "very good" prisoner. He works as an X-ray technician in the prison hospital. Through the prison school and correspondence courses, he has learned "about 25 languages." Next New Year's Day he will be eligible for parole. His plans? Said the warden: "I don't think he knows himself what he'd do if he ever gets...