Word: blondes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above them all stood a tall, blond young man in a double-breasted tan gabardine suit. His handsome, strong-jawed face was drawn and his blue eyes glittered; for a few seconds he gnawed nervously on a thumbnail, and bright sweat covered his high forehead. He was speaking softly, but with an urgency that seemed to tense every muscle of his body...
Saints & Sultans. When the rulers of France, England and Germany led forth the third and greatest of the Crusades, they were playing international politics on the side. England's towering, blond Richard the Lionhearted stormed the supposedly impregnable fortress of Acre, and later fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...
...girlish creature," played leads for the local dramatic society and burned for a larger stage of life. Her children caught fire. "She was a wonderful, wonderful woman," says daughter Jocelyn, now a Broadway actress (Mister Roberts), "with a great capacity for understanding and giving." Marlon, says Jocelyn, was "a blond, fat-bellied little boy, quite serious and very determined." He showed his sense of drama early. Whenever anybody would look, the little ham would shinny up on the mantelpiece, pose there like a general, clutch his heart all at once as if shot, and topple like a corpse...
Genoa's Duilio Marcante is a blond, brawny specialist in diving equipment who spends a lot of time with air tank and rubber flippers below the surface of the Mediterranean. One day Marcante sat on a rock, staring into the clear, green water and thought- as he later recalled: Wouldn't it be wonderful if there were a statue of Christ down there. Then the dead - all who have lived by the sea and died in it - could have their own secure refuge, a place to pray." Duilio Marcante told some of his friends, and the idea raced...
...came the bomb-shattering climax to years of plotting on Adolf Hitler's life by Otto, Hans and thousands of others. When that day ended in failure, Hans was in Gestapo custody and Otto was flying back to Madrid for his life. In Madrid, he dyed his blond hair black, went on to Portugal and to the British (who used him to interrogate important German prisoners). Brother Hans lingered under Nazi torture until the night of April 22, 1945. Then, as the Russians penetrated Berlin's suburbs, the Nazis faced Hans to the wall and blew open...