Word: shaven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...health study of 400 mustachioed applicants for officer training. He divided up the candidates by type of mustache: trimmed (short hairs over entire upper lip), bushy, toothbrush, hairline and divided. For trimmed, bushy, hairline and divided types, the "pass" rate was an average 23%-about the same as clean-shaven men. By astonishing contrast, not a single man with a toothbrush mustache passed. Incredulous, Peberdy persuaded a fellow psychiatrist to run a similar test at another British military base. There, also, to his surprise, not a single toothbrush passed...
...camera coverage brought wide- shots of the action but missed the of an event that network TV Brooks' endless calculations, swimmer Fred Elizalde leading the "Y" shaven in the skull of freshman captain Mike Austin, and disappointment of John Pringle after butterfly...
Free Advice. On the witness stand in Paris' Palais de Justice, the paratroop colonels made no apologies. Shaven-skulled Colonel Auguste Broizat, a veteran of Indo-China, said firmly that he not only "refused to fire on the crowd," but had ordered that his men stay where they were and "avoid all provocations." After the police massacre, Broizat told Algerian Commander in Chief General Maurice Challe bitterly: "Here is the result of our government's policy, and this is just the beginning." According to Broizat, Challe replied, "Don't tell me. I feel even more strongly about...