Word: cowlicks
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...summoned home for "consultations." No successor has yet been named. Later, Palme adopted a low silhouette; realizing that Erlander was contemplating quitting and that the top job was within reach, he cut back on his TV exposure, tidied up his once sloppy style of dress, even tamed his cowlick...
...under 50 can fully appreciate what it meant. It became America's national saga, all the more classic because its hero was to be shadowed by tragedy and did not prove to be free of flaws. "Slim" Lindbergh looked like the original country rube, with cowlick and baggy breeches, and he stirred folk memories; there was about him something of the raggedy fellow at the Sherwood tournament who outshoots the sheriff's best archers...
...jumped spry old Herbert Morrison, his near-white cowlick standing up more jauntily than ever. Now that his chance was coming to lead, Morrison was not going to let anyone out-Socialize him. "My test of a person on the left is what he gets done," he snapped, and pointed out that he had brought in the first public-ownership bill back in 1931. The Bevanites howled with rage. Morrison persisted: "You have to consider the jolly old electorate and what it will swallow. The British are not going to take in one election program the public ownership...
...kids look just about the same as they did a quarter of a century ago. Spanky MacFarland is built close to the ground, but always rises to an occasion. Alfalfa is wistful, but his cowlick won't stay put. Doe-eyed Farina has his black hair up in curlers, but is headed for trouble. Golden-haired Baby Jean is fickle: she generally falls for the kid with the shiniest fire engine. All of them get in and out of the same old scrapes, baffle grownups and outsiders, and always have ready answers to teacher's questions ("What...
...breed of forester-and the old as well. His father, an Irish immigrant who got the conservation bug, was a ranger before him, and his eldest son, a forestry student at the University of Washington, plans to follow the family tradition. McCullough, a wry, wiry man with a grey cowlick and steel-rimmed glasses, is boss of a 164,000-acre tract of the Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington State. He conducts the Government's business from an office in the hamlet of Enumclaw (pop. 2,788), just seven minutes' walk from his home. And on a salary...