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Word: baldingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not be exposed to the humiliation integral to many of the quack therapies (such as EST's day-long sessions with two rest periods, no cigarettes or alcohol, just a barrage of ideology that costs $300.) But the message, in the end, will most likely be bald in the extreme: "Bite the bullet...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Psychic Profiteering | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

...advance men running around with clipboards; overly efficient volunteers bossing one another and everyone else around; dour Secret Service agents in double-knit suits mumbling to one another through microphones hidden up their sleeves. At the center of the hubbub, surrounded by a phalanx of plainclothesmen, was "the Man"-bald, stocky and distinguished by the world's most famous eye patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: On the Hustings with Moshe Dayan | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...bald like baby birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trying to Say What Happened | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...room melliflously known as 'Burr B' must have been designed with tricksters like me in mind. The room is constructed along the dimensions of a Aztec temple, giving the person sitting in the last and top row a fine range of the classroom, perfect for taking notes, counting bald heads, and spitting. For three years, I have taken finals in that room, and every year I try to improve on myself...

Author: By John A. Spritz, | Title: Pranks and embarrassments | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Style? From the bald pate to the thin cigars to the vested suits, Kojak exuded a distinctive charm. (Long John learned from his barber that a shaved head was now a "Kojak" --in the old days they had been called "Yul Brynners.") Sure, he was rough, often abrasive. Admittedly there was little of the intellectual about him. But who would you want when you faced a cornered pack of diamond-smuggling mobsters: Theo Kojak or John Finely? So much for urbanity. And for all his gruffness, Kojak could display that heart of gold all macho crime fighters are obliged...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: The Man With the Lollipops | 5/19/1977 | See Source »

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