Word: shaven
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...these people feel about their deposed leaders? There's little loyalty, but a lot of sympathy. The Tammy Faye Cosmetics Store employees watch the scandal on the local news in their store T.V. One clean-shaven tour guide told me the workers think Bakker cheated them. But, weary of controversy, they just want the ministry rejuvenated. Most pictures of Jim and Tammy were torn down and replaced by the paintings of the Crystal Palace...
...fabulist who raises gooseflesh for fun and profit. At 39, he seems to be the country's best-known writer. When he appeared on an American Express commercial to ask onlookers "Do you know me?," the answer was obvious: Of course, they did. His face, sometimes . bearded, now clean shaven, appears on most of the 20-odd books written under two names. More than 60 million of them have been in distribution worldwide, including two volumes -- Carrie and The Dead Zone -- that were presented by Nicholas Daniloff, minutes before his arrest, to Misha, his Soviet friend. Some dozen films have...
...like steerage, every square inch filled by a body or a basket of smelly goods. The cabin, however, was not much better. It consisted of three wooden bunks and a table, and we shared it with a wealthy Burmese family, their electrical appliances, and eight or nine monks with shaven heads and long orange robes...
...soul is a cagey survivor. Prisoners in states of unfreedom contrive their own covert liberty. The Soviet writer Andrei Sinyavski, sent to the labor camps for six years (1966 to 1971) for "manufacturing" anti-Soviet works, wrote, "I measure life by the number of times my head is shaven." He thought about Mozart and Haydn. He kept a handwritten copy of the Book of Revelation in his boot, and that became his freedom...
Prehistoric man, a history of shaving relates, shaved with clams and animal teeth, or pieces of flint sharpened against harder stones. Because of the inconvenience of these razors, however, the practice of walking clean-shaven didn't really catch on until 356 B.C. when bronze razors were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century...