Word: bearding
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...group pressure doesn't suffice to get a beard off a chin or a world-saver off a soap box, the University is usually on hand with tutors, advisers, section men, and analysts. But even with the help of friends and elders, some of us will, like the grey haired men, smoke our cigarettes until they scorch our fingertips...
...spent their time in their hotel rooms playing gin rummy and canasta at 10? a point. As they played, a shapely maid dropped around to deliver a cake. In less than a minute, she was back down in the hotel lobby, aflame with blushes. "The big one with the beard," she stammered, "he told me to take off my sweater." "I cannot understand," said one of Baden-Baden's hotel managers, "why there are no women in the party. I hope there won't be any trouble...
...Honorable Man. As patriarch of the hacienda, Richard King sported a black beard that reached to the second button of his shirt. "He wore a wide-brimmed black hat strongly reminiscent of rebel cavalry, a black string tie with the knot hidden under the beard and the ends of the rusty silk usually askew. He went shod in the scuffed boots of a cowman no stranger to a corral. It was well known that when the captain appeared with one pants leg in and one pants leg out of his boot tops, the barometer was falling, the storm...
...friend Knud Rasmussen crossed the north Greenland icecap. Childlike in his daring, steel-girded in his endurance, he once (1923) hammered off the frozen toes of his left foot, hopped actively on a peg leg after a subsequent amputation. With his face also frozen, Freuchen grew a full red beard, only shaved briefly to be less recognizable when he joined the wartime resistance in Nazi-held Denmark. In 1945 he settled in Manhattan as U.N. correspondent for Copenhagen's Politiken, but he was ever anxious to head back to the Arctic. With explorer friends Sir Hubert Wilkins, Admiral Donald...
...dash to lower the set as soon as the commercial came on. Maybe somewhere in the country there is a viewer who reacts to that sudden rush of sound by saying, 'Darling, do watch this, isn't it fantastic what that razor will do to the hidden beard?' Maybe . . . but if they have to get up and lower the volume, someone in the room is going to say, 'Listen, while you're on your feet, see what Steve Allen is doing, or better still, turn...