Word: cowlick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only William Orville Douglas, the justice with the cowlick and the friendly grin, was absent; he had flown off to the Middle East to climb a mountain and make a speech...
...Image. But Hummon and Harris were undismayed. They sent a reassuring message to the Atlanta "interests" who had backed Old Gene and to the country "wool hat" boys, who had elected him. The message: Hummon was just like his pappy. He chewed corn pone, had Old Gene's cowlick, and stood foursquare for white supremacy and the white primary...
...Republican grandfather. He was friend and spokesman of the men of the soil, the exponent of scientific farming. He was a dreamer, and a scientist who developed a hybrid corn. Franklin Roosevelt made him his Secretary of Agriculture and he went to Washington -a shy, humble man with a cowlick, who once put himself on an exclusive diet of soybeans just to prove a point. He proved that soybeans are not enough...
Then up rose Henry Wallace, while the spotlights beat down upon his earnest face and his cowlick. Almost at once he plunged into foreign policy...
...gallop through a technical book, or one on philosophy or art, and then give without a stumble a half-hour precis of its contents. In lectures and debates at the Sorbonne, in meetings of legal and philosophical societies, he shines-a grinning, grown-up Quiz-kid with a cowlick over his forehead...