Word: braids
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...father'sencounters with air conditioning, television, popart or Mother's Day and Father's Day." Her fatherwas not against all fun--Lindbergh jubilantlytells of her father giving her a piggy-back rideto the rhythm of a nursery rhyme, and of lettingher "on very brief and special occasions" braid "askinny gray pigtail that hung lopsidedly over hisear." Nonetheless it was Anne Morrow Lindbergh whoserved as the emotional mainstay for her children...
...there is no shortage of gold braid: each Army division currently has 30 generals--up from 14 in World War II. The Air Force boasts a general for every 23 airplanes (down from 244 planes), and the Navy has an admiral for every 1.6 ships (down from 130 ships...
Getting ready to go back into the cold, Payanzo has trouble fitting Dylan's mop of unruly black hair into his blue knit hat. She and Dylan's father, Conrad T. Yazzie, frequently fight over whether his hair should be cut. Yazzie wants to braid it when it gets longer...
...young, and I find it my duty either to continue to tell people about them or to honor them in my work. People who do good work have a certain glow; for instance, someone like Audrey Hepburn got more and more beautiful, right to her death. I just braid my hair. I haven't done anything about the gray...
...case of Captain Everett Greene, charged with "unduly familiar personal relationships" with two female subordinates, is again forcing the Navy command to take a good hard look at its policy on sexual harassment. For one thing, Greene--who had been in line for an admiral's gold braid--is the third Navy captain in recent months to have his promotion derailed by charges of sexual chicanery: Captain Mark Rogers was dropped from the promotion list last April for using degrading sexual language, and Captain Thomas J. Flanagan was disciplined last month for an adulterous relationship with a female lieutenant...