Word: haire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Person. Tall (almost 5 ft. 10 in.) for a Chinese, thin, with greying hair and the pallid look of an anchorite, Liu is a Communist ideologue whom strangers in a roomful of people are apt to overlook. But Liu's voice is hard, his hand is heavy, his mind dogmatic and forceful. To Liu, the ideal Communist "bears the sorrows of the world now for the sake of later happiness; he toils now for the sake of later satisfaction; he doesn't wrangle with others whose lot is better; in times of adversity he can straighten...
Perhaps less can be said for John Cazale and Mary Weed, who played the lovers George Gibbs and Emily Webb. Mr. Cazale's hair is somewhat thinner than one would expect in a sixteen-year-old, and at times he mumbled more like a troubled suburbanite than a New Hampshire swain. Certainly nothing could be said against Miss Weed's interpretation of Emily, which became truly moving in the final scene of the play. But she looked "dressed down" to meet the sixteen-year-old requirement, and was simply not the willowy schoolgirl expected...
...Incan Indian appears to have been delivered because of a slovenly mix-up of orders at the Philadelphia foundry that made it. When the wrong Indian arrived in Cuzco, with three feathers in the hair and a bow in the hand, Cuzco happened to be preoccupied by graver matters: a typhoid epidemic that reduced the population from 60,000 to 11,000. All records of the transaction with the foundry were lost around 1880 when a government building caved in, and Cuzco preferred not to listen to the skeptics. Says Cuzco Historian Enrique Gamarra Hernández: "Atahuallpa was never...
...transports most of the tourists who visit Cuzco, has started a search to find the missing statue. Panagra reasons that if the foundry sent Powhatan to Peru, it may have sent Atahuallpa to some U.S. town square. He should be easy to spot. He is robust, with short-cropped hair, grave manner, handsome face, fierce eyes. He wears an elaborate band around his forehead, and a collar of large emeralds...
...satellite data, neatly sorted according to tracking station-Singapore, Ibadan, Lima, Heidelberg. In another, students pored over the squiggly lines that are man's first clues to the geography of outer space. Other students tested electrical components no bigger than grains of rice, soldering them together with hair-thin wires, and carefully fitting them into assemblies...