Word: balding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot them from airplanes, and laid out wholesale poisons. But in 1972 the Nixon Administration banned the use of poison on federal grazing lands because it kills more than just coyotes. The scattered chemicals-usually a nerve drug called Compound 1080-also felled birds, including endangered species like the bald eagle, not to mention foxes, badgers, opossums, raccoons and pet dogs...
...publications as well. Thus on Saturday morning, though the story commanded headlines, not one paper printed the magazine's excerpts. The Guardian came close, paraphrasing portions touching on Prune Minister Eraser's sense of humor and Diana's reported surprise at learning her Prince had a bald patch on his head. For the time being, at least, monarchy-mad British readers would have to content themselves with sanitized hints...
Charles Kuralt, 46, CBS Morning host, refuting constant descriptions of himself as "avuncular": "I'm fat and bald, but I don't think of myself as avuncular. It's too bad. I'd rather look like Rather. Of course, wouldn't anybody...
Ulysses Grant in his throwaway lines-in his throwaway life-kept trying to get people to see the colossal sick joke. All you do is take the nicest guy on the block, and knowing he is not good for much else, let him act on the bald fact that war means killing the guy on the other side . . . Then, all this man has to do is keep the fact in mind all the way to Appomattox...
...bald man returns with incredulity, "Get a hit? Are you kidding? He hasn't got a hit all year...