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...Christ-like idealist to the ruthless murderer. The New York Times's Herbert Matthews recalled how Castro had "whispered his passionate hopes and ideals into my ear," wrote stories that could find little to criticize in "the greatest hero" in Cuba's history. "Batista with a beard," scowled the Chicago Sun-Times...
...July movement (so named after Castro's first battle against the Batista forces in 1953) lies in the omnipresent barbudos, the rebel soldiers who roamed the streets while I was in Havana, still armed with the rifles, pistols and knives with which they won their freedom. The name "barbudo" (beard) is derived from the fact that most of these men wore long beards and or curly hair. The beards are currently being retained by most of Castro's followers as a symbol of their identity, at least until they return to the distant agrarian provinces from which they were recruited...
...aren't Japanese," Vag called back. "Anyhow, stop feeling sorry for yourself." He shuffled out the gate and crossed Massachusetts Avenue, cursing the rain, his day-old beard, his roommate, and John Donne...
Cursing the rain, his day-old beard, his roommate, and John Donne, Vag shuffled out of Lamont. "It's a hell of a way to run a railroad," he noted in passing the construction at the center for Oriental Studies...
...Dalton (Johnny Got His Gun) Trumbo. one of the original "Hollywood Ten'' writers who refused to testify at the 1947 hearings on Communism in the movie industry. Said Producer Frank King, who had stoutly insisted that Robert Rich was "a young guy in Spain with a beard'': "We have an obligation to our stockholders to buy the best scripts we can. Trumbo brought us The Brave One and we bought...