Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sergeant, guarding three captured Reds, waved the barrel of his M-1 rifle at one of the prisoners, a sulky shaven-headed youth obviously not out of his teens. "This kid's a speed boy," the sergeant said to a U.S. correspondent. "We flush these three out of a paddy field, and this one tries to cut out. I don't want to shoot him, because we want to question him. So I just run him down. He was talking English like a professor from Yale College when we caught him," said the sergeant. "Come on, speed...
...made a dramatic contrast. The Emperor was young (then 32), plump, clean-shaven, bland-faced, fond of snappy Western sport clothes. Ho was aging (55), slight (hardly 5 ft. tall), goat-bearded, steelyeyed, usually seen in a frayed khaki tunic and cloth slippers. Ho Chi Minh, too, had gone to France for education. As a young man, he had been sent into exile by the French police of Indo-China because of his family's nationalist agitation. His father and a brother went to political prison for life. A sister received nine years of hard labor...
...north had told it to farmers' wives in houses perched on stilts. Up the great rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong, the Tha Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing barge rides. On the lips of mendicants with shaven heads and shaven eyebrows it had traveled through cobra-ridden jungles where tigers lurked and elephants lurched, and on into the cool, airy teakwood forests of the uplands. In ancient, serpent-topped temples, yellow-robed monks prepared a welcome...
...while, the prisoners, too, were at moral odds amongst themselves. They argued endlessly about the proper way to meet their fate. The doctor was satisfied "to make our peace with these things and die quietly, like men." Anatol, a shaven-headed ex-Communist, snorted at dying "gracefully ... It stinks of priests and last minute confessions...