Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...access to high places stirs his suspicions; unmasks the crookery of a fellow-journalist (Rhys Williams); helps drive Tanaka to harakiri. For comic relief he makes a monkey, again & again, out of his feckless shadower (Leonard Strong). He uses judo, to thrilling and protracted effect, to chop down huge, shaven-pated Heavy Jack Halloran. Finally, in front of the U.S. Embassy one night, he confronts what looks like the entire secret police force of Japan. His tag line, spat at an oleaginous police chief (Marvin Mueller) who has had the insolence to try to appeal to him as a Christian...
Their garrison commander, Captain Lut, ramrod-stiff and shaven-pated U-boat skipper, boasted openly of his high score-110,000 tons of Allied shipping-and usually added: "The next time I will do better...
While I watched, a civilian tramped across the bodies and dealt Mussolini's shaven head a terrific kick. Someone pushed the twisted head into a more natural position again with a rifle butt...
...would seem logical and fair that, for every French prostitute so eagerly shaven and stripped by the impromptu courts held by French people, one shopkeeper and one businessman or businesswoman should also be given the same treatment. They, too, in their own way, have been doing business with the Nazis, the only difference, perhaps, being in the greater profit realized by the shopkeeper and businessman...
...east, 140 miles away, shaven-headed Lieut. General Wladyslaw Anders' durable Poles were still in the running on the Adriatic flank. In three weeks they had advanced 30 miles up the coast. Last week they snatched Ancona from two German divisions. Ancona's port-handy for Yugoslavia-was stoppered, like Leghorn, with wrecked ships. Among them: the Ida, 498-ton pride of passionate yachtsman ex-King Vittorio Emanuele...