Word: beards
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obaidi is a barber, not a cop or a U.S. hireling, and he wasn't aware that he had any enemies. But in the climate of fanaticism that now prevails in Baghdad, barbers are being singled out by Sunni extremists who say that cutting a man's beard violates Islam. "Do what we say," a stranger on the line told him, "or we'll kill...
...five or 10 years time ... it will be a real beard-and-sandals thing. BRYAN MAGRATH, marketing director at Dixons, on the unfashionable 35-mm camera, which the U.K. electronics retailer last week said it would stop selling
Hossein Rahimi does not wear a beard, not even the ten o'clock shadow de riguer for even the casually pious. He prays five times a day and bemoans what he calls "social corruption," but gels his hair, listens to Eminem, and doesn't look away when pretty girls pass. And that's not exactly typical of an activist of the basij, the clerical regime's volunteer paramilitary force tasked with enforcing its strictures on personal and social behavior...
...wrapping up for the night when a man who had been listening in the back tentatively raised his hand. He was obviously from here: T-shirt, a two-day beard, slightly soiledgreen ballcap, a bit shy. It?s not fair to say he was the ?furtive figure? in the room, but he was, somehow, a New Englander. ?I?d never seen him in the store before,? Zack told me later. ?He obviously came because of this book...
...world contains lines of dialogue like, “MURDER! MURDER IN THE BATHROOM!” and, “You are setting too much store by the prophecy!” (emphasis not added). Its main characters include a wise old wizard who enjoys alliterative aphorisms, pensive beard strokes, and—hold on to your copy of “Lord of the Rings”—sometimes carries a cane. The stories’ emotional climaxes tend to be accompanied by the sound of mermaids singing. And this is all deadly serious...