Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wait & See. Across Argentina, only the most muted protest rose over this bald assumption of power by the generals. A few small crowds gathered to shout "Viva Frondizi"-and were quickly dispersed by military tear gas. Most of the provincial governors, Intransigent Radicals themselves, called for Frondizi's restoration. The Perónistas, whose fanatical partisans smeared Buenos Aires with painted slogans (but got no financial help from Perón, who kept his millions to himself) during the election campaign, stayed safely at home...
...Leave "Ev and Charlie" alone. They are doing a tremendous job. They are real Republicans. So what if Ev has curly hair. And it is easy for Charlie to powder his red nose. The late Sam Rayburn was as bald as a billiard ball. I never heard any criticism of Sam. He did his job for the Democrats very well. Ev and Charlie are doing equally well for the Republicans...
...wrote, "started out black with the bald announcement that Mrs. Kennedy's trip was 'purely political' and that she wanted the fashion angle played down. Fashion hasn't had such a slap in the face in years. Second to politics? It was enough to make any fashion editor...
...Gimmick." Of all the funny-paper freedom fighters, none is more dogged than Harold L. Gray's 38-year-old Orphan Annie, a mop-haired moppet who has empty circles for eyes* and a bald, dinner-jacketed billionaire for a foster father. Last month, Annie and her Daddy Warbucks were holed up on a tropical island somewhere just off the map. Suddenly "enemy" planes appeared, carrying H-bombs. But Daddy and his pals were forearmed. Using what he calls his "ray gimmick," Daddy exploded the H-bombs prematurely, atomizing the attackers...
...dehumanization of their followers, is from another a lesson on how to win a war. But more than that, the real Communist lesson is that, by adopting a certain sort of military organization, a people can be reborn. on the military plane, this means doing away with "that headquarters ("bald, pot-bellied, fat-assed men, incapable of marching half a dozen miles without melting away in their own dishwater-like sweat, with like Franco and the fawning manners of Spanish Jesuits"), the broader effect is to reawaken appreciation of the very values the Communists were trying to destroy...