Word: uncut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington accepted Mubarak's claim that he did not know of Klinghoffer's murder at the time he negotiated the hijackers' safe passage out of Egypt. "We think he did it in good faith," a senior U.S. official said, "but whatever deal he cut came uncut when we found out they killed someone...
Once upon a time, Howard Hughes set airspeed records and looked like Indiana Jones. Then came the long, slow tailspin into lunacy. By the time of his death in 1976, the image lodged in the public mind was of an aging billionaire with uncut hair and Fu Manchu fingernails hidden in a darkened Las Vegas hotel room. An unhealthy disregard for reality became synonymous with the recluse's name. A fake autobiography by Clifford Irving and the forged "Mormon" will that brought fame to Melvin Dummar only made matters worse. One could never be sure of anything written...
...young Sikh men start to rid themselves of the traditionally visible traits of their culture--uncut hair wrapped in turbans, unshaven beards, etc.--some of the older, more conservative Sikhs have expressed alarm at the threat to Sikh identity. It is this impulse that lends support to Sikh separatists, no matter how extreme. But the moderates must lead the way into coming to terms with a changing society. The Sikh community must define for themselves what constitutes being a Sikh in the here and now and not in some romanticized and dangerous notion of seventeeth-century Sikh soldier-saints...
...cuts a strikingly distinctive figure. Generally tall and strapping, he sports a thick beard and, over his uncut hair, a turban wrapped of 15 ft. of elegantly coiled and pleated cloth. He takes as one of his names "Singh" (lion). He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding...
...hair uncut, Chris began preparing for the role of Jake Livingston. "I had two weeks to get ready. Monday through Friday. I rode the motorcycle and I played Lacrosse on weekends. It's a rough game." But the schedule still afforded him more time than his stage work. "I did eight shows a week and sent to high school kind of not much time for anything else...