Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After conference with Deans Bender and Watson, no such alternative seemed likely. The Album Beard will make a definite decision shortly as to the final disposition of the book...
Potato Seekers. On the Autobahn at the edge of Berlin, a young girl in a bright print dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches hobbles out on the broad concrete highway and hails a truck which has just left the checkpoint. As it stops, all scramble to their feet and crowd around the driver. They are the potato seekers, hitchhiking their way out to the flat farm country, where they will try to trade...
Having decided this, they still needed a new co-chairman to stand beside Dr. Kingdon;. from Paris, Sculptor Jo Davidson had wired that he would take his beard out of politics. P.C.A, quickly found a new man: California's fast-talking Robert Kenny, ex-state attorney general, onetime unsuccessful candidate for governor, leftist Democratic opponent of the state's Democratic right wing, and, of course, an eager supporter of Henry Wallace for President...
...defendant wore a brilliant red and yellow checked shirt, khaki riding breeches and knee-high, shining black boots. A long mane flowed down his back from the heights of his domed head; a vast, bushy beard descended from his chin to his chest. He entered the tiny courtroom in Paris' august Palais de Justice reclining on a stretcher...
...Morocco a generation ago, was exchanging the 21-year exile of Reunion Island, in the Indian Ocean, for the milder exile of a villa on the French Riviera. Or so the French Government expected. Instead, when the Katoomba reached Port Said, Abd el-Krim, now portly and grey of beard, walked ashore and placed himself and his retinue of 40 under the protection of Egypt's King Farouk...