Word: combs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 300, since 250 were still missing. It was, by any count, Brussels' worst fire and the most devastating one worldwide since 323 persons perished in a circus blaze in Brazil in 1961. Brussels Mayor Lucien Cooremans said that it would take a month or so to comb through the tangled debris, which still smoldered days later. Store officials estimated the property loss at $23 million...
...their chandelier coifs, the Redgrave girls teamed up. Vanessa washed her own hair in midafternoon, then summoned Beverly Hills Coiffeur Carrie White for a comb-out and had her add a cascading fall for greater thickness. The whole business took all of ten minutes. Lynn, meanwhile, puffed up her own do as well as Mum's (Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave...
...local newspapers, failed to produce any response. Thompson was accustomed to the jungle, but the forest around Cameron Highlands is so thick and its trails so numerous and meandering that local authorities estimated that it would take a full regiment of men working for about a month to comb the area. The only clue came from a cook in a Lutheran-mission bungalow, who said that she had seen Thompson standing on a nearby plateau for about 30 minutes. Then, she reported, "suddenly he disappeared." By week's end, no trace of him had been found...
...contest was the North American Ski Championships; and the formidable enemy commander was France's Honore Bon net, 47, otherwise known as the Napoleon of the sport. "That can only be," disclaims the coach of the French ski team, "because I am not so tall and comb my hair to the front...
...roll. Show business moves into the newsroom, and lights dim beyond the rim of the desk. The day's debris is shoved off into the shadows. As technicians man their equipment, a makeup expert goes to work on the managing editor. At the last moment he runs a comb through his blond hair, shrugs a neatly pressed jacket over his wrinkled shirtsleeves, and shoots his French cuffs. It is 6:30 p.m. Cameras zero in, and CBS's Walter Cronkite Jr. begins his half-hour evening report. Now, by his own definition, his role has changed...