Word: balding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pastor Shaw's specialty was his urgent appeal to youth. "My church," he says proudly, "was not filled with bald-headed people. We had regularly as many as 200 to 300 youngsters attending services. Sometimes he brought an outstanding boy or girl into the pulpit with him to lecture on how the church could be made more interesting to young people...
...Chair-Warmer. Here, in the concrete, was the glowering, complex malady known as "The Farm Problem." Seated last week in the middle of it, buried to the top of his egg-bald dome in crop surpluses, statistical mousetraps and political pitchforks, was Charles Franklin Brannan, a plain, earnest, city lawyer from Denver, who is the 14th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.* A sturdy (185 lbs.) six-footer with inquisitive brown eyes, a hard-to-ruffle temperament and a scrubbed look, Charlie Brannan had neither farming experience, pocketfuls of votes nor campaign dollars to commend him when Harry Truman plucked him from...
Today stocky, bald Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 58, is Minister of Law in the government of India, and no longer an untouchable; India's new government has outlawed untouchability. His favor is courted by the great and powerful, and even high-born Brahmins are flattered to be asked to tea with Minister Ambedkar in the tiffin room of the Indian Parliament...
Without Effort. One night last week, in Prades' Cathedral of St. Pierre, the Bishop of Perpignan welcomed the artists and the "musically select audience, all united here in the same spirit." Then as bald, spectacled Cellist Casals took his place in the transept, the entire audience rose with the orchestra in a quiet tribute...
Everybody agreed that the bird showed military dash throughout. After perching at an approximate parade rest itself for five minutes ("about 20 minutes," insisted Hughes later), it took off as the corps was dismissed, made a brief dive-bombing run on a bald-headed civilian in the grandstand, and then flapped away...