Word: beards
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...method of cliometrics (from Clio, the muse of history) has demonstrated ways in which computers can define trends and correct the errors of historical preconception. For years historians have spoken of the Civil War as the nation's economic breaking point, the moment when, as Charles and Mary Beard argued 50 years ago, the urban industrial North seized power from the agrarian South in a "second American revolution." Through cliometrics, says the University of Pittsburgh's Samuel Hays, historians have analyzed such production figures as railroad mileage and steel output, and found that the "takeoff points" occurred earlier...
...mean to tell me that Darth Vader is still out in space? I've thought all along that he escaped to earth, where he threw away his helmet, grew a beard and set up shop in Iran...
...many cooks make judging difficult when the time comes to hand out annual Tastemaker awards for the best U.S. cookbook. This year, after sifting through 92 entries, the judges pared the list to a prestigious few, including Food Writers Craig Claiborne and James Beard, as well as Jacques Pépin, 44, onetime chef for Charles de Gaulle. Pépin's book, La Methode, won the grand prize. Gathering to receive their awards, the three pitched into a mélange of asparagus, zucchini, cauliflower, carrots, tomatoes, eggs and rack of baby lamb. What was it such eminent...
...wide cross-section of backgrounds and motives for being there, including left-leaning democrats, new-left radicals from the 1960's (Mario Savio, founder of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley--the group which kicked off student protests in the '60's--was there, with graying hair and beard), radical teminists, American Indians, gays, and Gray Panthers...
...Nazi persecution; later he aided the postwar resettlement of many Hasidic Jews, whose men wear broad-brimmed black hats, grow their sideburns into long curls and never shave, heeding the biblical injunction: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall thou mar the corners of thy beard...