Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a solution may seem, it is filled with as many perils as, well, a 19th century medicine man's wagon. In the case of cancer, quack remedies involve more than bustled ladies sipping alcohol-laced Lydia Pinkham's compound or husky baldpates rubbing themselves with hair-growth oil. They are a cruel hoax that distracts cancer patients from possibly effective therapy. Even if it were accompanied by a caveat, an FDA stamp of approval for Laetrile would draw still more cancer patients away from conventional treatment-with disastrous consequences. Says Dr. Vincent DeVita, director of cancer treatment...
Resplendent in a powder-blue dress, her red hair immaculately coiffed, the woman of the hour flashed a dazzling smile of triumph. "The 'normal majority' have said, "Enough! Enough! Enough!' " Singer Anita Bryant told cheering supporters and newsmen in Miami Beach. "Tonight, the laws of God and the cultural values of men have been vindicated." By a smashing 2-t01 majority, the voters of Dade County had just endorsed Bryant's fervent crusade for the repeal of an ordinance outlawing discrimination against homosexuals in housing, unemployment and public accommodations. To celebrate their victory in last week...
...inside the store before the storekeeper can stir, blinking in the dimness and striding toward the storekeeper with his hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
...North made what it considered a generous offer, especially given its painfully slow economic recovery. The South grudgingly accepted the package, but termed it quite inadequate and refused to give anything in exchange. Said Claude Cheysson, the European Community's commissioner for development: "We were within a hair of a breakdown. If we had known what a risk we were taking, we might never have started this dialogue...
...just being in a lab all day." The tall, lanky graduate does not smoke-either cigarettes or marijuana-seldom drinks beer, is largely apolitical, and spends his spare hours waltzing and tangoing with other members of M.I.T.'s ballroom dancing club. A neat dresser, with every short blond hair in place, he admits: "I'm probably more conservative than most, more traditional...