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...Benjamin Franklin had had his way, Ronald Reagan would be declaring 1982 as "The Year of the Turkey." In 1776, the Continental Congress assigned to Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams the task of designing an official seal for the new nation. Franklin opposed the selection of the American bald eagle as the centerpiece on the ground that it was "a bird of bad moral character" that sometimes steals food from other predators. Fortunately for the American psyche, Franklin's preference for the "more respectable" turkey as the national symbol was voted down...
...June 20, 1782, Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States. Its principal feature is the majestic bald eagle, wings spread, clutching an olive branch in its right talons, a cluster of 13 arrows (for the original states) in its left. Americans were not the first to adopt eagles as symbols of independence, courage and power: European cave men decorated their walls with drawings of eagles, and rulers from the Roman Caesars to Napoleon chose the bird as their emblem. But no people took to eagles like the Americans to Old Baldie, which has adorned everything from 19th century...
...according to Webster, "didn't think it was necessary" to pursue the matter or to question Donovan about it. Fielding, who was an assistant to John Dean in the Nixon White House, told TIME: "It wasn't presented to me as a substantive charge. They had a bald allegation by two hoodlums...
Murray ignored the remark. "I'll miss WKRP in Cincinnati," he volunteered, his bald head waxing nostalgic. "They were like us too-a tiny, not very successful radio station whose employees were never quite resourceful or ruthless enough to be No. 1. I always thought of them as human Muppets. Dynel Andy and soft, squeezable Mr. Carlson tried to keep their charges in order. But Venus Flytrap and Johnny Fever, the disc jockeys, were too weird, and Les Nessman too straight, and Bailey too nice-a little like you, Mary-and Herb Tarlek too wonderfully oafish to realize...
...that performs acrobatics of sadism and a scream that sounds like stripped gears. But Wez is a Muppet compared with his leader, the lord Humungus (Kjell Nilsson), "warrior of the wasteland, the ayatullah of rock-and-rollah." The Humungus malevolence courses through his huge pectorals, pulses visibly under his bald, sutured scalp. He is the meanest, strongest man left in the world. But Max is the best...