Word: balding
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...great nation-wide breast-baring, "essentially honest" Senator Nixon uttered the following bald...
...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...
Egypt's Strongman Mohammed Naguib seemed likely last week to follow the example of Kemal Ataturk and outlaw the tarboosh (fez in Turkey) as a symbol of the Old Order. Tarboosh-makers protested: a tarboosh, they argued, nicely covers a bald man's baldness and adds to a short man's stature. Whatever the effect of their plea, Naguib continued knocking a lot of tarbooshes off a lot of prominent heads. Most prominent: Abdul Rahman Azzam, secretary general of the Arab League...
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...