Word: haired
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Significantly, Goldwater was named last fortnight as the presidential choice of South Carolina's minuscule Republican Party.) Items from the dictionary: Air-What you hear [hair] with...
...government. They understand that we are thinking of their interests." In eight years as Minister of Native Affairs in the regimes of Daniel Malan and Johannes Strijdom, genial Dr. Verwoerd fashioned South Africa's tough segregation decrees. Using such criteria as the shape of noses and kinkiness of hair, his system classifies blacks, mixed-blood coloreds and Asians by race, then allocates to each a rigid, underprivileged place in society, in which his residence, travel, employment-even his drink-can be determined by government officials. The editor of the National Party's pro-Nazi Die Transvaler during World...
Accompanied by his chic French wife Christiana, Matta set up housekeeping in a native hut. A slight (barely 100 Ibs.) man with bristling black hair and piercing eyes, he had a strange way with the wild animals-antelopes, buffaloes, lions, elephants-that were his charges, walked fearlessly among the wildest and greatest beasts. He always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam...
John Coolidge, director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum: "I suppose my prejudice is in favor of doing it rather than against. But the question sometimes is, do you want a lady with red hair or with a bald head? If you make a wrong guess, you make a wrong guess...
...dance, or try to." It is an apt description of his prose and his life, though scarcely of the man. At 48, Durrell is a short (5 ft. 3½ in.), chunky (145 Ibs.) man with clear blue eyes, thick blond-grey hair and a blunt face. Though his forebears were Irish Protestants, Durrell began his whirling-dervish life in India, where his engineer father helped build the Darjeeling Railway and died when Larry was 17. Recalls Durrell: "We lived the life which Kipling romanticized in Kim. All day long, processions of lamas passed my school whirling prayer wheels...