Word: beards
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...Balcetis has long three-point stroking fingers, a quick beard, and perfect enunciation. He maneuvers around the vowels in “official visits” as if they are point guards playing defense. Years after his highly touted arrival on campus, the spring in his lanky frame is still visible, born of years of European training...
...Absolutely. I’m actually a woman,” said Australian archaeologist Ken Mulvaney, who despite a single earring, looked convincingly masculine with his titanic grey beard...
Just a day after he was released on bail, Aziz, wearing his trademark spectacles and graying beard, returned to the Red Mosque, the site of a weeklong siege in 2007 between the mosque's seminary students and the Pakistani military, to deliver a sermon ahead of Friday prayers. Thousands of worshipers flocked to the centrally located mosque, spilling into the surrounding streets and kneeling on makeshift prayer rugs while Aziz's voice boomed out over loudspeakers. He told the story of Moses' struggle against the Pharaoh of Egypt to allow his people to practice their religion. Moses, considered by Muslims...
...Tahiliani directly addressed the three defendants and informed them of the changes in their representation. Qasab agreed and smiled at his new lawyer. He had watched the day's proceedings calmly, occasionally staring off into space and sometimes laughing when everyone else in the courtroom laughed. With a shaggy beard and hair that covered his ears and forehead, Qasab, 21, looked older than he appears in the globally circulated pictures captured of him during the Mumbai attacks, when he walked through the city's main railway station in cargo pants, brandishing weapons. Sabahuddin, 25, a head taller than Qasab, extremely...
...followed by Operation Mongoose: a years-long series of increasingly far-fetched attempts on Castro's life. Between 1961 and 1963 there were at least five plots to kill, maim or humiliate the Cuban leader using everything from exploding seashells to shoes dusted with chemicals to make his beard fall out. The Get Smart-like plans never worked, and Castro's Cuba soldiered on, angry as ever at the United States...