Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatic corps were allotted seats in the council chamber. When the Indian assistant commissioner, the wealthy, Oxford-educated Rajah of Alirajpur, had to visit the Nyasaland capital of Zomba on official business, the only hotel accommodations he could get were 40 miles from town. The rajah has his hair cut by his pretty wife because, he says bitterly, "it has been made painfully clear to me that if I go to a barbershop, some white bricklayer or truck driver will object to sitting next to an Indian...
...isolation wards of the ruffian-troubled New York City school system-its two 700 schools-were back in the news last week, only a fortnight after they were set up to keep hard-to-handle kids off the streets, and embarrassing headlines out of the school officials' hair (TIME, March 17). The incident: at the Greenwich Village school, boys were lined up for a pre-class contraband check. Among ruled-out items: knives, cigarettes, matches (combs-which make effective face-slashers with the teeth broken out-may be banned next). One student, 15-year-old Charles McDougle...
...After) Hastings, 20, Novelist Bill (The Divine and the Decay) Hopkins, 29, and their partisans pushed up to the Exertionists' table. "I'll crush you with my Daimler," screeched Holroyd's wife Ann, who is rich and has one. Wilson grabbed Logue by the hair and shoved him to the floor...
Bobby Fischer has always worked at his chess with deadly intensity- an unkempt kid, his hazel eyes glowering beneath a snarl of mouse-brown hair as he systematically plotted checkmate after checkmate. As a tyro, he bawled whenever he lost, and he did not present himself at the high-pressure Manhattan Chess Club until he was sure he could handle just about any man in the place. He was then all of twelve years...
...Buck Coulter, the "trail boss." Brings out the worst in Jennie by showing too much chest hair ("It's indecent"), eventually becomes her third mate...