Word: haired
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...travel plans were altered. Picked up on a deportation order, he was whisked across the border before dawn one morning by a mysterious convoy of Mexican secret service agents and deposited at the U.S. border station in Laredo, Texas. There, dumpy, dark-eyed Morton Sobell, 33, his black hair disheveled and his undershirt ballooning from his trousers, was arrested by waiting agents of the FBI as a spy for the Soviet Union...
...division between Roman Catholics and other Christians was widened last week-by a split hair's breadth. A secret consistory was called to meet in Rome Oct. 30 to hear the Pope proclaim as official Roman Catholic dogma that the Virgin Mary was taken bodily into heaven at her death. The decision drew a prompt and strongly worded attack from the Church of England...
...stocky man of middle height with plentiful white hair and an air of semi-polite skepticism. But he can also blaze with indignation and laugh like a kid-all within a few minutes. In the presence of his gentle-voiced, humorous wife, he smiles like a man who is happy. His interests are more versatile than those of many scientists: he has been known to sit for half an hour beside a rock surrounded by rising water just to see what a dozen ants will do when their refuge is submerged...
Many a man has gone grey trying to find a cure for grey hair. Even vitamins such as pantothenic acid, which works fine on rats, have no effect on humans. But the search goes on. Last week Dr. James Hundley and Robert B. Ing of the National Institute of Health reported that they had found a new clue in their rat cages. Black rats which got a diet with plenty of pantothenic acid but not enough copper went grey within eight weeks; boosting the copper in their food started a fine crop of black hair growing again within five days...
...piercing the eyeball and pushing the clouded lens down out of the light rays' path. This partly restored the patient's sight, though not his power to focus. Susruta also anticipated modern aseptic surgery: his operating room was fumigated with sweet vapors; the surgeon kept his hair and beard short, his nails and hands clean. His patients even seem to have inhaled some kind of anesthetic...