Word: forelock
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Mission Accomplished. With his fiery forensics, stabbing forefinger and bobbing forelock, Nye Bevan gripped most of the House-but not always, to his chagrin, Winston Churchill. "I do not know what the Right Honorable . . . Prime Minister sees to laugh at," he cried at one point...
Dogmatic Slumber. At 60, Ransom is a small, gentle but formidably self-possessed figure, with a silvery forelock clapped over his right temple, and deepsunk eyes. His accent is still softly Tennessean, his manner a little like a family doctor...
...hurried analysis . . . indicates that the player pushing the red men (Stalin) has accepted white's gambit pawn but lost a knight as a result. Furthermore, the red player has not taken time by the forelock, but has remained undeveloped, while white has taken full advantage of every possibility to develop his position...
Against a Democratic candidate unbeholden to Boss Kelly and not responsible for any part of his administration, the standard G.O.P. issues-sanitation, politics on the school board, police inefficiency -fell flat. Root resorted to rhetoric. Waving his arms, his forelock falling across his eyes, he denounced President Truman, Secretary of State Marshall, a third world war. Fed up, many Republicans were supporting Kennelly. Some even contributed money to his campaign...
...jargon was springing up everywhere. In San Francisco the word "boodles" was used both as a noun and a verb-and could mean anything under the sun. In Charleston, S. C., where dyeing the forelock was all the rage, kids greeted each other by crying...