Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greek army there have been many changes. Field Marshal Papagos, assessed by U.S. military men as a good sound soldier, has fired eight lieutenant generals, 30 major generals, and so many brigadiers and colonels that people have lost count. Papagos, a dignified man with a bald head, hooked nose and fierce eyes, has insisted that his officers be fighting men and not politicians...
...football defeat had to be swallowed bald and whole. But there was balm in Gilead. Equally bald and equally whole stood forth the headline that proved that, although Harvard had lost a battle, it was winning the war. The headline read: "Crimson Chessmen Rock West Point Forces...
Rebellion in the House. In the House, the Administration fared even worse. Texas' solid, bald-domed Sam Rayburn, starting his soth term in Congress, was re-elected Speaker of the House.* A respected and fair-minded presiding officer, he took the chair amidst sounds of good will and harmony. But almost immediately, rebellion broke...
...Algernon George de Vere Capell, bald, pipe-puffing 66-year-old eighth Earl of Essex, was taken slightly aback last week when a Seattle marriage-license clerk told him that he would have to wait three days before getting hitched. The Earl's bride-to-be, 37-year-old, New York-born Mildred Carlson, had come back to the U.S. from Australia to become his third wife, and he was naturally impatient to get the details concluded-he was short of dollars and planned to travel on Mildred's funds until he got to Bermuda and a rapprochement...
...mounting score for future retribution, never stops telling the Reds about it. A constant flow of warnings from, his typewriter penetrates East Germany. Before the zone's rigged October election, the underground blanketed the countryside with posters and carefully documented pamphlets blasting Red nominees as crooks and stooges. Bald, professorial Lawyer Friedenau, whose black sideburns reach almost to his chin, boasts that as a result of underground activity 70% of East zone finance offices recently refused to enforce Communist directives expropriating business enterprises...