Word: tufted
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...following editor Norman Cousins' prescription that laughter is the best medicine. Atwater has watched videotapes of the Three Stooges and W.C. Fields' film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Black humor also helps: he presented some friends with copies of his new album and a souvenir tuft of his hair, which has been falling out from radiation treatments...
...wrapped in long shawls called netela, they come in entire families, grandfathers and grandchildren. The men hold herding sticks; the women carry babies bound to their backs with cloth. And then there are the youngsters, some of them naked and with their heads shaved except for a single tuft in front. They are strangely silent...
When a man aspires to the nation's highest office, however, mundane personal habits take on overwhelming importance. A man's hair becomes more than a tuft of stringy proteins. It becomes an important political statement...
...racquetmen had no trouble handling Tufts, as eight of nine players breezed to either 3-0 or 3-1 victories. The one close match was played at number two, where Tuft's Wes Baker took David Boyum to the limit...
Meanwhile, despite the tensions resulting from the United States establishment of relations with China, Taiwan remains an important customer and supplier, said Leonard Unger '39, former Ambassador to the Republic of China (Taiwan) and currently a professor of diplomacy at Tuft University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy...