Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates turned out to be top-drawer officials, ranging from a big collective-farm chairman to the boss of all Soviet farming, Acting Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich, 45, a suave, shaven-headed Ukrainian henchman of Communist Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev. Under the influence of Iowa's warm welcome and 90° heat, they quickly melted, shed their dark jackets, switched to shirtsleeves, straw hats and smiles. When someone complained about the heat, Matskevich stole Iowa's favorite reply: "Yes, but it's very good for the corn...
Tara Singh, white-bearded religious leader of India's 6,000,000 Sikhs, has strong views about the recent habit among young Sikhs of shaving their chins. "These spoiled youths forget," he said, "that when they are shaven they look like boiled potatoes." And then, because Tara Singh is also an active politician, he went on: "Shave the lion and see how he looks! Are we not a race of lions...
TIME said: "... A strange figure among the close-shaven, monocled Prussians, but Zhukov could outfence any of them." Good old Zhukov! I served, 1905-18, as a cavalry officer in the Prussian army. We did not shave our heads, leaving this to Tartars and Mongols. As to monocles, they were the exception . . . Fencing was neither part of an officer's drill nor his pastime. However, it really does not matter whether Zhukov fenced those Prussian officers in or out .. . Shaven-headed, monocles, swashbuckling, heel-clicking, the familiar good old clichés . . . the Erich von Stroheim type created...
...When the chance came for a military course at Moscow's Frunze Academy, he grabbed it. Chief of Staff Boris Shaposhnikov thought him "somewhat slow," but sent him off to Germany to study under General von Seeckt. The black-haired young Russian was a strange figure among the shaven-headed, monocled Prussians, but Swordsman Zhukov could outfence any of them, as he later could outfence any Russian officer who served with him. From Von Seeckt, chief theorist of the new German army that was already forming, Zhukov learned the strategy and tactics of the "breakthrough...
...also does not expect "scientists to have sufficient wisdom to make moral judgments about the use of the atomic bomb . . ." ¶ Japan's 1,139-year-old Buddhist Shingon (True Word) sect became the first in the country to form a labor union with priests as members. Twelve shaven-headed apprentice priests last week joined office clerks in the "Temple of the Paramount Summit Labor Union" and drew up a contract complete with a strike clause. Main purpose: job security and better working conditions...