Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China. The entertainment provided at Peking was at least as lavish as that shown the British in Moscow. One night there was a ten-course dinner for 400 at The House of Magnanimity (a former imperial palace), where the menu featured melon prepared in the shape of the shaven head of one of Buddha's disciples. On another occasion, a reception for 600, 23 toasts of mutual friendship and admiration were drunk in red and yellow wine-and they were kanpei (bottoms up) toasts. It was all very heady stuff...
...seven different occasions ("I succeeded in not talking"); they condemned him to death and finally shipped him off to Buchenwald. While many of his brother-officers were making their names in North Africa, Italy and the Vosges, Cogny was slaving in German road gangs, his head shaven, his weight down from 200 to 135, his striped camp uniform in tatters. Cogny had to take his glory in bitter fragments: he once managed to slip water into some German V-2 rocket fuel; and on Bastille Day, 1944, he led his skeletal fellow inmates in a full-throated Marseillaise...
...days gone by," recalls clean-shaven Professor Sato, "a [Japanese] professor wore a fine mustache, carried a cane, and commuted directly from the geisha house to the classroom in a jinricksha . . . Now, after 31 years of teaching. I return home with a monthly salary of 36,150 yen [$100]. I give the envelope to my wife . . . Usually, this sort of conversation ensues...
...band of Kikuyu women, naked except for thongs of leather tied round their shaven heads, recently stole out from a bamboo thicket on the slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. Armed with shiny pangas, they crept into a Kikuyu village, killed three Kikuyu men and a 14-year-old boy. The victims were Kikuyu guards, loyal to the white men and pledged to fight...
...cartoon characters in the comic strips, many newspaper columnists never seem to grow old. For six years the same picture of Frank Kingdon, a onetime Methodist minister, has illustrated his "To Be Frank" column in the tabloid, New York Post, it was the likeness of a mildly balding, clean-shaven man in his 40s. Last week Dr. Kingdon, 59, decided to be frank about his looks. Without warning to the readers, the Post overnight changed photographs, used a new one of a bald, bearded and much older man (see cuts...