Word: haired
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...just arrived--one who gave the appearance of being just under seven feet tall and who was said to be the mayor, and another in a camel's-hair coat who said he was head of Civilian Defense--were also told by the photographers to bend over and look at the pavement. When that was done, one of the men with instruments was asked to test the shoes of the man in the camel's-hair coat for radioactivity. The latter obliged by sitting on the edge of his car seat, and crossing his legs out into the street...
...Tories say frankly (but privately) that they would rather be out by a hair than in by a hair. They (and many Labor leaders) expect an economic crisis in Britain this year. Tory strategy is to let Labor "carry the baby" until the crisis deepens, then bid for a big majority in another election. This might come between April and December...
...lasted through the ninth, his wavy brown hair damp and matted, his body streaked with red from Small's blood-smeared gloves. When the bell sounded for the tenth round Roach doggedly came out into the ring again. Small jabbed a soggy left to his mouth. The blood trickled down from Roach's battered mouth, splattering down on his black boxing trunks...
Charmingly Churlish. At 32, Colorado-born Harold Ross was an ex-itinerant newspaperman and ex-editor of the A.E.F.'s Stars and Stripes, a rumpled, rawboned man with electric hair. (Dorothy Parker cracked that her life ambition was to walk barefoot through it.) At 57, Ross can afford a good tailor ("I'm a well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described...
Losses that set the Crimson back and out of the meet were in the freestyle events, while exceptional times by Bob Berke gave him only hair-breadth seconds in the 220 and 440, and Captain Joe Fox lost to Indian junior Jock McIntyre by a nose...