Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forrest Ray Colson was a thin, pallid, blond boy. His hands were soft and white, and he wore gloves whenever possible. But for all this he wanted to be a "big hero" and have lots of girls. At 16 he left high school in Hollywood and joined the Marine Corps. He served six unrewarding years, from 1941 to 1947. He saw no action, won no medals...
...shop's window, he was certain that something which looked extraordinarily like a leg of lamb was prowling around inside. He rang for reinforcements. Two squad cars screeched up. A phalanx of coppers tumbled into the meat-shop, pistols drawn, flashlights glaring. On the floor sat a blond, blue-eyed, six-year-old boy. He was playing trains with some sausage...
Golden Boy. The lanky (6 ft. 1 in., 155 Ibs.), blond-mustached 23-year-old took over the Examiner on March 4, 1887. He subtitled his little sheet "Monarch of the Dailies," and set out, as one editor put it, "to arouse the 'gee whiz!' emotion." The Examiner's boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken...
Aboard the destroyer escort Douglas A. Munro the captain pledged a $50 reward for the first man to spot Sierks. The Navy, which knows how long a man can last in the open sea, ordered the search ended at 2 p.m. At 1:15 two seamen sighted a bobbing blond head, lost it, then picked it up again...
...tell literally everything we are doing. But if you can tell me one thing on the other side, I'll be very grateful. That's an awfully hard way to make war." Marshall paused and looked around at a group of newsmen which included Evgeny Egorov, chubby, blond Tass correspondent in Tokyo. "We are certainly working at a tremendous disadvantage," the Defense Secretary sighed. "That's democracy-but I think democracy has got to watch itself...