Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undercover men also had let their hair and beards grow long and scraggly. They dressed shabbily and took on menial jobs-yard work, house painting, truck loading-that did not demand Social Security cards, driver's licenses or other forms of identification that could have been traced by the militants' friends...
Downstairs two middle-aged professors drift past the job center, speaking of the relationship between metaphors and real life. A girl with waist-length hair passes them with tears in her eyes. The convention is almost over, and she has failed to arrange a single interview. "There's got to be a better way of doing this," sighs a Wisconsin Ph.D. candidate. "Half the people here are enjoying themselves because they are secure in their jobs." He stares nervously as a department head who has just interviewed him passes by without a sign of recognition. "For the rest, M.L.A...
Aman has a tip for Americans wishing to improve their verbal-abuse techniques: "Look for a distinguishing characteristic. Each of us is deviant in some way. For instance, I wear glasses, I'm five-foot-seven, 20 pounds overweight, have short hair and a Kissinger accent. So you could start off calling me a fat, four-eyed, runty, reactionary, sewer-mouth Kraut." Still, he considers it unsporting, and sometimes destructive, for cursers to pick on physical characteristics. Says he: "Insults should be aimed at behavior, something a person can change...
...work to fluff an Old English Sheepdog into shape for a dog show, like the Eastern Dog Club Show, held last month at Hynes Auditorium and pictured here. Between shows a weekly brushing suffices, but even this can be a painstaking, four-hour job of combing out matted hair in the dog's undercoat. In fact, many owners tire of the excessive grooming, and abandon their sheepdogs to dog pounds and humane societies. Sometimes, the dogs are casualties of divorces and job transfers, or they may be left behind because they grow larger and more rowdy than their owners...
Anne Raker [above left], owner of Ambelon Kennels in Lincoln, bred 120 Old English Sheepdogs over 18 years. But last year she stopped breeding in order to start rescuing abandoned sheepdogs. In only one year she placed 54 neglected dogs in new homes. Some of the dogs arrived with hair so thickly matted that Raker could cut off the coat in a single piece, exposing underneath a very thin dog riddled with worms. Dogs with neglected coats are susceptible to eczema, and flies lay eggs in warm, moist infected areas...