Word: bearding
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...five-haired beard of wisdom
...years in Congress, sharing the Senate dining room-if not a table -with Vice President Spiro Agnew, who contributed to Gore's political demise. Senator Philip Hart, a diligent liberal Democrat but not a household name, made a bid to become one: 1 showed up with the first beard in the Senate in 31 years-the payoff on an election bet on himself. He had intended to keep his bristles hidden 1 northern Michigan, but the special session flushed...
First, there was Ronald Hughes, 35, who had casually met Manson a year earlier. A onetime conservative turned hippie, Hughes had flunked the bar exam three times before passing, and had never tried a case. Manson took him on after he agreed to grow a beard. Now the amiable Hughes talks of quitting law and becoming a character actor. Manson brought in Irving Kanarek, 52, whom he regarded as the most obstructionist and time-consuming lawyer in Los Angeles, in hopes of badgering the judge into allowing him to defend himself. When the judge continued to refuse, Kanarek proceeded...
Hersey is at his best in his human vignettes, as when he describes Mike, a dedicated radical, during an intramural baseball game, "running to catch a fly, face upturned, thick glasses mirroring fleecy clouds, beard flying in the April wind, an outsized cap cupping his flowing hair-and then the thud of the ball in his glove and the companionable cheers of men who didn't agree with Mike on one damn thing...
Meanwhile, as for Barbara Westman, she's on a perpetual Crimson Key trip, and, if The Beard and the Braid is any indication, it doesn't look as if she's coming down for quite a spell...