Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's conscripts have passed the highly competitive ba-chot, which qualifies them to enter a university or specialized technical college. Nonetheless, they still spend most of their compulsory year of military service performing menial tasks. Unlike Dutch or West German soldiers, they are prohibited from wearing their hair long or engaging in any kind of political activity. Corporal punishment has been abolished, but the men are subjected to harsh discipline: an occasional kick in the pants from a sergeant is still used as a reprimand...
...Freund had occasion to recall his second meeting with Oliver Wendell Holmes. "We went up to the second floor study, where Holmes was seated, starched and stiffly erect in his ninety-third year, behind his desk. He wore a black cutaway and striped trousers, his skin was parchment, his hair luxuriant and silver, his cavalryman's moustachioes abundantly flowing." Freund remembered...
Emmanuel center Matti Calhoun scored 18 points over a sloppy defense in the first hair to give Emmanuel 38-34 bulge, but Radcliffe roared back behind Denise Thal (19 points(, Captain Jeannie Guyton (17), and Kathy Fulton (13) to steal the game...
...skin elasticity that occurs with aging. Nor is there any way to get rid of the dimpling. Exercise and proper diet may improve skin and muscle tone and make this excess adipose tissue less obvious, but it will not make it go away. Says Greenwood: "Body type, like hair color and the distance between your eyes, is inherited, and the same is true for the distance between your fatty deposits...
...rehearsal the next night is for the chorus. Thirteen basses, tenors, altos and sopranos are huddled at one end of Shannon in a semicircle around Krag and the piano. Jay Banks, a Gilbert and Sullivan "groupie," is the accompanist. He's a small man, with brown hair, a brown beard, brown rimmed glasses, and a penchant for bright colored turtlenecks. He's a physics major at Harvard and has been involved in a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan shows, often unofficially. He has no part in Princess Ida but he comes to most of the rehearsals and often gives Krag...