Word: shorn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shorn of his occupational handicaps, Heinz Guderian could pass as a good fellow. He unbends rather more than a high-ranking German officer should before civilians and is a mannerly, affable conversationalist. But he is all Army. In the old days he liked best to sit with fellow officers beer-drinking and shop-talking, especially about the employment of armored force...
However, since the G.O.P. Convention I have shorn my long hoary beard, discarded my rationed tatters, lifted mine eyes unto the hills, for I hear thunder in the Catskills, and it "ain't" duck pins, either...
Policy toward Japan. Japan, Author Lippmann believes, must submit to being expelled from the Asiatic mainland, entirely shorn of sea power. "The terms defined in the Cairo Declaration will last if Russia, China and the U.S. stand firmly upon them...
...this process an imitation beaver coat retailing at about $150-less than one-fourth the cost of genuine beaver-can be made from shorn sheep pelts. Unshorn skins can be converted into longhaired "furs" such as fox, complete with silvery sheen. The manufacturers even talk of imitating mink. The synthetic furs are more durable than the genuine article...
Their faces were daubed with red, black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon...