Word: egg-bald
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...famous barber is Marinus van Rooijen, 49, who attributes his success to a secret fluid. His first patient was a young farmer named Klaas Tolner, who now has three inches of gleaming blond hair on his once egg-bald pate. "It's been cut three times already," Klaas grinned last week. "Now the girls will look at me again...
Yale University had never had a guest lecturer quite like the count. He was an egg-bald old (69) gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...
Died. Carl Thomas Anderson, 83, veteran cartoonist, who worked at it for 40-odd years and finally clicked with "Henry," an egg-bald moppet; of a heart ailment; in Madison...
Blandly, at first, the Russians spelled out the ostensible reason for such severities. They were decreed "in the interest of expediting travel." Then egg-bald Colonel Alexander Tulpanov indicated why the Russians were jittery. He thundered to a German audience: "Spies from the British and American zones come in masses to Berlin and from there into the Soviet zone to carry out economic, political and military espionage...
Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, an egg-bald Russian with a twin-pronged beard, spent a lifetime seeking peace and, somehow, disturbing everything he touched. Devoted followers thought he was a genius who could unify humanity through art. Loudmouthed Westbrook Pegler thought he was a quack who wanted to become "head" of Siberia...