Word: shorn
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...kneecap and the stone floor adrift with chestnut and blonde locks, some of which clung to the shoes of the barber nuns. More interesting than the barbering was the sight of the nuns talking with the postulants-a special permission, she supposed, to ease the nervousness of the shorn ones who had a tendency to giggle when they saw how the others looked...
...Dayton Air Show, and Piasecki ranked as the No. 1 manufacturer of big transport helicopters. But inside the executive suite raged a struggle for control: Piasecki men v. Rockefeller men. In March 1955 Frank Piasecki lost even the board chairmanship to President Berlin. Four months later, almost completely shorn of power and with nothing left but a directorship, he walked out to form his own outfit, the Piasecki Aircraft Corp. The Berlin-operated helicopter company quickly slammed the door. In two successive special stockholders' meetings it changed the name of Piasecki Helicopter to Vertol (vertical take-off and landing...
...house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue looked deserted. The windows, shorn of their rich hangings, had a vacant look about them, and on the White House gates there were neat, white wooden signs: CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Inside the mansion, a sander went to work in the East Room, smoothing away pits and scars on the quartered-oak parquet floor. By week's end the floor was ready for filling and waxing. This week a crew of maintenance men will move in to fix the floors, touch up the paneling in the State Dining Room, and dry-clean the soiled...
...terror of New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, aeronaughty TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey, who was shorn of his private pilot's ticket for six months last year after he peevishly buzzed Teterboro's control tower, taxied his DC-3 at the scene of the crime, this time clipped a ground approach light with his wing. Unaware that he had dented the wing and ripped a deicer, he nonchalantly took off for Nova Scotia. The tower called Godfrey, broke the news that he had just had a slight accident. Surprised as he could be, Pilot Godfrey returned...
...hours more. (Boasted he to a henchman: "This takes guts to do this, Gentry. She is dying.") Last week. Convict Stephenson, summoned to hear the decision, got his second chance (he was paroled in 1950, hauled back to prison shortly for lamming to Minnesota). Mumbled the Grand Dragon, long shorn of power, women, and his purple and gold vestments: "Thank you very much...