Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better to Live Poor. Despite their hardships, the Kazaks were cheerful. The men were clean-shaven and clear-eyed. The women's cheeks were like red apples; their flowing black robes were hung with silver coins to denote the wealth of their menfolk. Once-wealthy Kussa In himself displayed a huge Swiss watch at the end of a silver chain on his corduroy jacket. "Of the hundreds of horses I once owned," he said, "only six are left, and now I am selling them. But it is better to live poor in a land where one can follow...
...dredge from the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires. Grouped around Phibun were the fashionably dressed ladies & gentlemen of Bangkok's diplomatic corps. The first inkling of trouble came when a fluttery British lady in long gloves and a floppy picture hat was approached by a smooth-shaven young Siamese marine, who said quietly: "Please step to one side, Madam. We are about to arrest the Premier...
Died. General Ma Chan-shan, 65, onetime Chinese war hero; in Peking. Little, shaven-polled General Ma was both an illiterate, sharpshooting militarist (who bragged that he could shoot birds from a galloping horse) and a man of cultivated tastes (he fancied Mongolian silks and had staffmen read poetry aloud to him). Against Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, he led the only serious resistance in North China to the invaders, then sold out and was briefly a puppet ruler...
...cartoons, however, maintain a consistently high level of humor. In addition to the familiar classics which graced this very page in years gone by, one finds the ill-shaven young man telling a quartet of follow Communists in Cronin's: "Oh, don't get the wrong. Some of my best friends are club men." Or the doctor in the Hygiene Department yelling at a student running a temperature so high that his hair is singed: "What do you want for $30... TWO aspiris...
...news that the statue in the Yard was not clean shaven was passed on yesterday to a shocked University Hall by an operative of the News Office who made the discovery while cleaning off a picture of the alleged likeness of the founder...