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Word: haired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...described as being Black, about5'5" tall, and of thin build, with short curlyblack hair and a light complexion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armed Robber Holds Up Mass. Ave. Clothing Store | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...runs a marriage-introduction center that does a booming business serving the needs of hundreds of well- educated women who by their late 20s are desperate for husbands because men with less schooling are reluctant to marry them. In Chengdu the Xinhua bookstore owns a flower shop, a hair salon and a clothing boutique whose manager gets his goods from "a guy in Shanghai who has good guanxi." In Shanghai itself the city's world-famous acrobats attract bigger audiences by sponsoring fashion shows between tumbles. A university in Guangdong has branched out to invest in a three-story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...happy to be leaving Cambodia," said a soldier from Can Tho province as his 3-year-old daughter tugged at his hair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hanoi Pulls Last Troops From Cambodia | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

Once was bad enough, so when Houston school authorities this fall banned his two teenage sons from classes because of their long hair for the second time, Wilburn Wilkinson, 48, decided to go to court. The divorced electronics technician sued the Spring Branch (Texas) Independent School District, charging that Northbrook High School is discriminating against his sons Brian, 17, and Travis, 15, by enforcing a dress and appearance code that controls male -- but not female -- hair length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: A Hairy Legal Issue | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Since last October the boys have been exiled from class because the school prohibits male hair below the shoulders. Theirs reaches the middle of their backs. Last year short-haired Wilkinson tutored them at home, but was later fined $25 for violating the compulsory school-attendance law. He has hired a lawyer, Darrell McAlexander, with shoulder-length hair and a drooping Fu Manchu mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: A Hairy Legal Issue | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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