Word: haired
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...William G. Stone, a blue-uniformed security inspector, who keeps a watchful eye on miles of barbed fences. Because he is a Negro, the six barbers in the town's only barbershop refused to cut his hair, and walked off the job. They also had to leave town, because no one who is not gainfully employed is allowed housing in Los Alamos...
...shop shut down, Manager Darrell McCleskey advertised for barbers throughout the state, interviewed 29 applicants, but could find no barber who would promise to cut heads regardless of color. He offered a compromise: if Inspector Stone would keep away from the shop, McCleskey himself would cut Stone's hair by appointment in a private chair at the Guest Lodge, where he usually gives personal attention to the top administrators, scientists and company officials...
After due thought, the National Association of Women Artists decided that America's "most stimulating faces" included: Ernest Hemingway, whose face "proclaims, 'I've hair on my chest'"; Cinemactress Ava Gardner, whose face "stimulates desire" and "has the potential explosiveness of the H-bomb"; the New York Yankees' Catcher Yogi Berra, who "stimulates women's subconscious yearning for the Neanderthal man" with "the most down-to-earth face in America...
...finds the ill-shaven young man telling a quartet of follow Communists in Cronin's: "Oh, don't get the wrong. Some of my best friends are club men." Or the doctor in the Hygiene Department yelling at a student running a temperature so high that his hair is singed: "What do you want for $30... TWO aspiris...
...like Ohio's Senator Robert A. Toft, who try to cover their bald spots by combing up a fringe of hair, are known as "slicker-overers," charged a fellow Republican Senator. Said Colorado's Eugene D. Millikin, who is billiard-bald himself: "How can you get any place in politics if you deceive people...