Word: bearding
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...from an enemy position that they had just destroyed. General Sar Hor pulled a wad of riels from his map case and handed the reward to Major Kim Phong, the group's commander. "Special forces, can do!" he shouted. Kim Phong, a tall, strapping Khmer with a stubbly beard, who looks a bit like an Asian Lee Marvin, has been a soldier for 20 years, first for the French, then for U.S. Special Forces in Viet Nam, now with the Cambodian army. He speaks loud, brash G.I. English sprinkled with obscenities, leads his team on special missions and helps...
...James Beard, cookbook author: "McDonald's is a great machine that belches forth hamburgers. The whole thing is aimed at the six-year-old palate. They don't salt things enough, and the malts taste like melted ice cream. But the place is efficient and clean, and the help is pleasant. The packaging is damned smart because it insulates. The food may be more honest than some things you get at higher prices...
...friends, Abbie, 36, was picked up in a narcotics raid on a midtown Manhattan hotel for allegedly selling three pounds of cocaine to two undercover policemen for $36,000. "They were the most nice people you ever met in your life," said one of the narcs, who wears a beard and long hair. "They loved us, as a matter of fact. They said we gave off good vibes." Out on $200,000 bail, Abbie could get from 15 years to life under New York's new stricter drug laws...
...chronicle of the first half century of a firm whose exemplary pursuit of profits has spanned 70 countries and dozens of industries. It's a tribute to Sampson's research that the Watergate hearings have not made his book seem dated, with the exceptions of its bewilderment at Dita Beard's sudden appearance in a Denver hospital and one reference to "the President's counsel, James Dean" (the index gets it right). And it's a tribute to Sampson's writing that we find the accounting techniques which have made ITT's pursuit of profits so successful, unprecedently...
...mother is a nightmare Yiddisher mama, a shrieking, swooping, loony harridan who plies her son with brimming trays full of food. Papa is a smalltime Italian hood who looks like an eggplant with a two-day growth of beard...