Word: thatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snowy thatch and frosty eyes behind thick rimless glasses made him look like a crusty old literary lion. In fact, David Leo Lawrence, former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, was one of the shrewdest, most powerful political bosses of modern times; indeed, until his death last week at 77, he had spent every waking day of his adult life as a professional politician...
...spattered boots scrambled up on a huge rock pile, and hammed it up for photographers. Then they clambered aboard a bulldozer, and posed some more. A few moments later, they were riding on the running board of a Ford truck, jouncing along dirt roads past mud and thatch huts, waving eagerly to bewildered peasants...
...quiet little operation on Lüneburger Heide, West Germany, he suffered through the unique experience of a normal haircut to prepare for his role as a British Tommy in a film called How I Won the War. When the perspiring barber had finally chopped through the thatch, Beatle aides swept up the locks and sent them off to a German teen magazine for distribution to the faithful. "It's all right," said John. "I've got a new face now." The new face looked absolutely naked, but he figures that his mop will be normally back...
...wants a vacation on which the customer brings his own sheets, sleeps in a thatch-roofed hut, goes without electricity, and uses a communal toilet? The 520,000 members of the Paris-based Club Méditerranée, that...
Clad in knee-high black boots, a grey wool lumber jacket, well-worn brown corduroys and a visored cap, Ceausescu moved out through the waterlogged countryside, past peasants in dripping sheepskins and gaggles of screeching schoolgirls, past hat-waving horsemen who offered gifts of bread and salt, past thatch-roofed villages painted sky blue and sienna, past gargantuan collective farms and gleaming new factories. Geese hissed, dogs barked, and Ceausescu listened to gripes. Sometimes speaking from a stack of concrete blocks, sometimes from the back of a wagon, he pressed home again and again a message more familiar to Western...