Word: whiskered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat Bricker, DiSalle must lure Ohio's large floating vote back into the Democratic fold. The vote floats fast--Truman carried the state by a whisker in 1948, and two years later Taft rolled up a 431,000 majority over Joe Ferguson to win his Senate seat. If Taft's margin reflected more his opponent's mediocrity than his own popularity, DiSalle has a chance. But if anything, Taft seems to be idolized in Ohio even more now than two years ago. Cloaked in Taft's prestige, Bricker has a better than even chance of victory...
...father married a Du Pont. In 1946, John Williams had the bulk of Du Pont support. This year the family is split, with some important elements backing cousin Alexis. Dopesters say that Ike is a bit ahead of Stevenson in Delaware but that Alexis is an aristocratic whisker in front of John Williams...
...this time Wayne is a doddering septuagenarian, left with only his memories and his granddaughter, little Nellie, who reminds him of his departed wife. And Wayne has shaved just about every whisker in Sevillinois-except those on Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie...
...last blazing saga, and has a little trouble bounding over the roofs of moving box cars. His expression, long ago worn into the lines on his face, remains an unchanging leer. Dean Jaeger, the benevolent millionnaire on the verge of ruin, looks more the romantic lead than O'Brien. Whisker-checked Sterling Hayden might be taken for a goodie if you sit down in the middle of the picture. But the audience is lulled into believing that jowled O'Brien is the hero, because his leading lady is also jowled...
...Whisker. In Mombasa, Kenya, Africa, a team of Sikhs, whose religion requires them to wear full beards, won a tug-of-war contest, solemnly accepted the prize: individual bowls of shaving soap...