He chanted and combed his hair minute after minute, whirling the wheel over and over again.

FORBES: Remembering the Road to Baghdad

Had combed out his hair so patiently that time he came home with lice.

NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

Paul Kellner, 97 years old, his white hair rakishly combed over his head, stares out of the big bay window in his Fifth Avenue Manhattan apartment.

FORBES: Home Ties

He combed and parted his hair neatly.

NEWYORKER: Uncle Rock

His thick black hair was combed forward, with a lock falling boyishly onto his forehead.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

Cut to four years later and Batista, 41, is sitting in the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel in New York City looking through a presentation, in English, his dark hair combed back and wearing an expensive suit, a tightly knotted red tie and dress leather shoes.

FORBES: Magazine Article

He was pale, perspirey, with limp blond hair combed straight back from his oblong forehead.

NEWYORKER: Great Experiment

His meticulously combed and pomaded beard merged into a full head of black hair.

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