Word: semibald
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...boundaries, his writing remains quick and poetic. A team of six translators (including Holub himself) collaborated on Shedding Life, and they succeed admirably in capturing the terse, aphoristic quality of his prose. For instance, Holub likens the Vietnamese minipig, the Eastern bloc's lab animal of choice, to "a semibald porcupine caught in a frontal collision between two armored cars...
...plump, semibald Andre Kostelanetz was No. 1 U. S. air traveler. He made weekly round-trip flights between New York and Los Angeles, in New York conducted his Chesterfield broadcasts, in Hollywood directed cinemusic for and wooed Coloratura Lily Pons. In 1937 he repeated the schedule, and last June the pair were married. As might be expected they quickly tired of a groundling honeymoon...
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