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The city bore the physical marks of the impending Inauguration: tall, metallic black gates traced a border around the Capitol; vast panes of white plastic flooring covered the half-bald grass of the National Mall.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

In marched square-jawed half-bald William Duncan Herridge, hearty brother-in-law of Canada's Prime Minister Bennett, resplendent in blue jacket lavishly embroidered with blue, gold and white braid.

From Time Magazine Archive

The man the witnesses knew they were talking to was the tall, rangy, half-bald Democrat who slumped in his chair at Senator Smoot's left�Mississippi's Pat Harrison.

From Time Magazine Archive

But every important Cuban banker knows, at least by sight, Governor Eugene R. Black of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Black is very tall, very thin, half-bald, full of gumption.

From Time Magazine Archive

But by far and away the quirk which had given wrinkled, half-bald, almost ninety-year-old Mercedes Rael her most far-reaching fame was her habit of throwing stones at people.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols