Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasted effort. Before a vote was taken, Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas' bald epicenter of respectability, stepped gravely down from his rostrum for one of his rare appeals to the House. Rayburn said nothing flashy, but his prestige wrapped dignity around his homilies. He reminded his colleagues that they lived in dangerous times, recalled the effectiveness of the Marshall Plan and warned them that the hungry fall easy prey to Communism. "We need friends in this world today as we never needed them before," he said. "I am for ... this bill because I think it will help us from...
...couch while a parliamentary committee tried to decide how to tackle the gigantic task of taking over and running the oilfields. U.S. and British diplomats were anxiously trying to guess what was going on inside the Parliament's yellow walls, and inside Mossadeq's eagle-bald head. Sighed one Briton: "We could deal with a reliable blackguard. But how can you deal with an honest fanatic...
...Threat Remains. Thin, bald and aging (70), the new Premier is a rich landowner who was educated in France, has an honorary LL.D. from Oxford. In a country where political skulduggery is the rule, he has remained an honest man. He is rated an able orator, often gets so worked up in his speechmaking that he faints; he is then revived and, after finishing his address, is carried out feet first...
...Mayor," cried out beefy Al Horan, Cook County committeeman and bailiff of the municipal court, as Kennelly was busy taking bows. "You can thank the party. I gave you 20,000 votes this afternoon in the 29th Ward. The West Side did it, Mr. Mayor. . . Where's Arvey?" Bald little Jake Arvey, until recently boss of the Cook County machine, pushed forward. Cried Horan: "Here's the greatest little Democrat in Chicago...
...Sorter, which resembles a glorified cigarette dispenser, single-mindedly sorts all the cards into class lists, academic rankings, the number of bald veterans in Indic Philology or anything Registrar Kennedy wants. When February comes around, the Sorter arranges all the course cards in the proper order for exam schedules; from there these cards are shoved into another big box called the Collator which ferrets out all conflicts...