Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike formal portraits, in the robes that make the Court seem eternally changeless, this one illustrated sharply its clean-shaven youthfulness (average age: 56 years, compared with 71 for the 1936 Court) and such nonjudicial phenomena as Associate Justice William O. Douglas' five-gallon...
Chen's Men. If Chen undertakes an offensive without more guns it will be because his troops could not possibly have more guts. China's best troops belie all the old saws about Chinese cowardice and indifference. They are husky, shaven-pated sons of the soil who, when they must, storm concrete casemates with nothing but hand grenades, who like better than anything else to close with the Japanese hand to hand...
...Manhattan housewives the Safeway invasion means more self-service stores, more butcher shops. (Many Reeves stores now lack meat counters, undoubtedly will get them.) Biggest single item in the Safeway turnover: beef. It will be sold by well-shaven, well-breakfasted clerks without mustaches. So Safeway's Employes' Manual decrees...
...Steve Dutton is built like the village smith, bullnecked, his nearly-six-foot frame wrapped with 180 Ib. of muscle as tough as a lion-tamer's boot. He has never worn glasses. His hearing is acute. Neat in a black suit and powder-blue topcoat, clean shaven and impatient, he stomped out under the bright lights, roaring in a deep black bass. He raged at being held without bail, bawled out a stripling cop who dared touch his shoulder...
After reducing five very objectionable characters down to one-foot size and doing away with two of them when he finds they are growing back to normal, the shaven-pated Dr. Thorkel is himself done in by the remaining three midgets. These murderers of the "greatest biologist in the world" regain their original stature and wander back to civilization, two of them finding true love...