Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singer Pat Boone made it. So did Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. But the first edition of Who's Who in Religion published by Marquis Who's Who, Inc., seemed most notable for the names that did not appear in its list of 16,000 people who "demonstrated merit in some form of religious activity." Among those not present: Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen; Unification Church Founder the Rev. Sun Myung Moon; Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee; and Manhattan Clergyman Norman Vincent Peale, whose "positive thinking" books have sold more than 5 million...
...Lower East Side of Manhattan. She was not picked up. "I couldn't believe how she looked in her wardrobe," says her mother, Brandy Foster, a former Hollywood pressagent. "Suddenly she had legs. I don't think I'd ever seen her with her hair curled. I was very happy when she returned to her grubby little self...
Gutsy Play. The young (average age: 21) U.S. hockey team, meanwhile, was putting on an inspiring show of gutsy, spirited play, becoming favorites of the fans as they constantly hugged and slapped each other in encouragement. By winning one hair-raising game against Finland, the team thought it had a solid chance for a bronze medal. But, at week's end, a loss to West Germany ended that hope...
Renaissance writers insisted it destroyed grass, tarnished mirrors and dissolved asphalt. The sight of it, Australian aborigines believe, can turn a man's hair gray. Until 1967, campers at Glacier National Park were warned that its odor can incite bears to attack...
...Turing was a pure eccentric, a runner who "would on occasion arrive at conferences at the Foreign Office in London having run the 40 miles from Bletchley in old flannels and a vest with an alarm clock tied with binder twine around his waist." Turing was "wild as to hair, clothes and conventions" and given to "long, disturbing silences punctuated by a cackle." But by 1939, confounding all predictions, he had designed an "Ultra" machine that could decode Enigma's messages...