Word: haired
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...after seven years of service in the British Royal Air Force, Paul Bernard Grieger decided to visit his parents in Poland for Christmas. It turned out to be a long visit. Two weeks ago Grieger slipped into West Berlin with a hair-raising story of his escape, and a grim account of life in the new Poland...
Levitt & Sons' President William J. Levitt describes the product simply as "the best house in the U.S." Coming from Bill Levitt, that exaggeration is natural, and pardonable. At 43, the leader of the U.S. housing revolution is a cocky, rambunctious hustler with brown hair, cow-sad eyes, a hoarse voice (from smoking three packs of cigarettes a day), and a liking for hyperbole that causes him to describe his height (5 ft. 8 in.) as "nearly six feet" and his company as the "General Motors of the housing industry...
...wife of the Inspector of the Bohemian Northern Railway, a right to expect that her prayers for a daughter would be graciously granted? Yet here it was, a boy after all. In a foolish pet, Sofia decided to raise her son as a daughter, anyway. She put up his hair in braids, kept him in pretty frocks and dainty underwear, set him to playing with dolls and little girls, and called him "Sophie...
...ever tended the flames more assiduously or mistreated nature with more zestful enthusiasm than the little barrel of a man with the wonderful name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de la Santisíma Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Seizing nature by the hair, he joyously twists, tears, chops, stretches and mauls her to create new faces never before shown to mortal men. "What is a human face?" asks Picasso. "Who sees it correctly-the photographer, the mirror or the painter? Are we to paint what's on the face, what...
Grots was hurriedly packing to leave for New York City. "I'm going to be working in New York this summer," he explained, "and I know-I know several very nice girls in New York--all with long hair...