Word: thatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Washington's portraits show that he was bald in front; James Madison, Martin Van Buren and the two Adamses lived in tense times, had bald pates to show for it; the Civil War, however, left Abraham Lincoln's splendid thatch unthinned...
...major TV appearance, John Cameron Swayze eagerly phoned his wife Tuffie. "How did I look?" he asked breathlessly. Said Turner "Like you were dead." A bit dismayed, Swayze got rid of most of the television make-up he had been wearing, added a toupee to thicken out his sparse thatch, set himself to cultivating an air of friendly animation. In three years, these simple measures have helped to propel brisk, 45-year-old Newsaster Swayze into a bigger-than-TV prominence. His Camel News Caravan weekdays, 7:45 p.m., NBCTV) now has an audience of some 5,000,000, rates...
Bevan, once as extreme an advocate of complete nationalization as the party had, wearily swept back his thatch of hair (a well-trimmed thatch these days to match his well-tailored suit). Said he: "In the ensuing dislocation there would not be many houses going up. Good heavens! Think of the price of compensation-even down to the jobbing builder in every village...
...Under Thatch. In 1912, Frost sold the farm and, partly because his wife confessed to a yen to "live under thatch," and partly because living was cheap there, they sailed for England. At 38, he had never talked to another poet...
...From thatch-roofed Amazonian villages to dusty cattle towns on the Argentine border, the rasping blare of loudspeakers drowned out other sounds in Brazil last week. Sao Paulo's skyscrapers shook to political singing commercials. Sandwichmen stalked the streets on stilts scattering handbills. Placards adorned nearly every lamppost in the land. Office seekers barnstormed the backlands in chartered planes; at least two lost their lives trying to fly in & out of bush-country airfields...