Word: haire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here come the niggers," was the first battle cry as two six-year-old Negro girls in neat green dresses, their hair done up in braids, came into view. "Pull their black curls out!" screeched one white woman. As the Negro six-year-olds tripped quietly into the schools, the crowds grew wilder. A white waitress raised a tattooed arm, threw a rock and hit a Negro woman on the chest. A Negro woman guided her grandchild quietly through a gauntlet of hissing whites until she broke under the strain, undid one button of her blouse and drew a knife...
...There once was a woman with unsightly feet. People whispered about her as she passed: "Look at that gal with those big, ugly feet." To distract attention from her unfortunate condition, the woman dyed her hair an eye-catching green. Thenceforth, she was gay, carefree. Everybody noticed her green hair. They whispered about her, as she passed: "Look at that gal with the green hair. And get a load of those feet...
Many a husband returning home from work at dinnertime last week was startled to find a different-looking woman in the house. To some this brought a sudden, tingling exhilaration, but a second look (perhaps at the feet) established that the wife was the same, only the hair different. It glinted with a new hue. The husband had been dragged into the host of U.S. men whose wives have become touched with tint...
Displaying her beauty (green eyes, honey blonde hair and 35-25-36), her talent (at the Hammond organ) and her intelligence (Q.: "Is it proper for a lady to propose marriage?" A.: "Heavens, no! That is the man's role"), Marilyn Elaine Van Derbur, 20, of Denver was named Miss America of 1958, a title which will enable her to make in the next year...
Vanity Fare. In Toronto, when Ruth Pyburn, 29, was rescued from Lake Ontario, where she had fallen from an excursion boat and had floated unseen for an hour, she collapsed after begging her rescuers not to let others "see my hair like this...