Word: beardless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movement spread. In Victoria, 200 beardless demonstrators stormed the legislature building, entering noisily and irreverently by the gate reserved for the Governor General and Lieutenant Governor. "We want five-cent bars," they chanted. In several cities some stores hurriedly cut prices to five or six cents...
...Boss Khrushchev], one of the 14 most powerful men in Russia, at 52 looks at least a decade older, rather like a beardless Santa Claus after a hard Christmas, because he almost worked himself to death during the war. The day-to-day performance of the men who run the Ukraine seemed to me about as good as any I've ever seen. . . . They would measure up pretty well, for example, beside such smooth-running outfits as the U.S. Forest Service or the Republican machine in Westchester County...
Once in a while the long arm of the law reaches to hold up a slipping brassiere or a dropping G-string, and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded age fall away...
...dosed himself with quinine, nitric acid, extract of liverwort. He walked about with a cane, muffled himself in scarves and flannels, later (after an iron gate fell on him) rode in a wheelchair. He never married. Until he died at 71, he had a gnome-like, boyish face-beardless, wrinkled, blotched...
With a desperate Kamikaze air, the Senate Military Affairs Committee last week reported a bill extending the draft for a year. The bill, which differed little from the existing draft law, was okayed by the Army. But it horrified Colorado's lumbering Senator Ed Johnson. Cried he: "Only beardless youths will be conscripted. . . ." Every "boy" drafted will be "thrown in the path of diseased prostitutes and lewd women" in the "foulest human cesspools...