Word: forehead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oval face, pale as a Siberian snowfall, and his nose is straight and narrow-bridged. When he smiles, a thin upper lip edges high to reveal a set of glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad stomach. In his jovial moments he bellows; at his most earnest his voice modulates softly and melodiously. He changes his expression in a flicker; impressing the curious stranger, his small, blue-grey eyes grow bluer...
...laid eyes on the book in 38 years. Now, thanks to White, the supply has been replenished (Macmillan; $2.50) with a fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face of my professor, his short hair . . . combed down over his forehead, his eyes blinking incessantly behind steel-rimmed spectacles as though he had just emerged into strong light, his lips nibbling each other like nervous horses...
After all the months of speculation, the climax came so fast only the experts could follow the action. Sotheby's Chairman Peter Wilson, forehead beaded from strain and the heat of his serge coat and striped pants, started the bidding by asking diffidently: "Shall I say ?20,000?" A voice promptly sang out "?100,000." Bidding with lips, eyebrows, fingers and catalogues, dealers whooped the price upward at the rate of ?5,000 every four seconds...
...Among the more code-conscious of Paris' 9,000 prostitutes, the penalty for deserting a protector is severe: it can mean a 500,000-franc fine, underworld-enforced, or even the lifelong scar of the dreaded croix des vaches, a deep cross carved into the doxy's forehead. Bill had even more grandiose ideas of the code of the caïd. When Dominique told him that she could not pay the 500,000-franc "fine" she owed him, he offered to help her pull off a stickup in suburban Fontainebleau to raise the money...
...picture, taken by Associated Press Photographer Paul Vathis and appearing recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer, showed Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor David Lawrence, 69, during a press conference, head down, sparse hair above an expanse of wearily wrinkled forehead, hands clasped as though to prop up sagging jowls. Old Pol Lawrence thought the picture made him look like an old pol (see cut). Cried he next day to Photographer Vathis: "The worst picture I have ever had taken of me, and I've seen some beauts...