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Among the more unlikely ones may be a silver-bearded federal judge who has wasted no chance to tell the country's biggest banks what he thinks about how they operate.
Jed Rakoff, 'Maverick' Judge, Putting Wall Street In Its Place 2010
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Among the more unlikely ones may be a silver-bearded federal judge who has wasted no chance to tell the country's biggest banks what he thinks about how they operate.
Jed Rakoff, 'Maverick' Judge, Putting Wall Street In Its Place 2010
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Once all was said and done, I made my way home in two parts, chatting first to Angela aka LiteraryMinded on the train about writing and books and all things shiny, and then later catching a cab, where my silver-bearded 60s-rock-loving driver made me laugh with jokes about Keith Moon, Gene Pitney and Bill Bailey.
Breaching the Kitchen « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009
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Once all was said and done, I made my way home in two parts, chatting first to Angela aka LiteraryMinded on the train about writing and books and all things shiny, and then later catching a cab, where my silver-bearded 60s-rock-loving driver made me laugh with jokes about Keith Moon, Gene Pitney and Bill Bailey.
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Once all was said and done, I made my way home in two parts, chatting first to Angela aka LiteraryMinded on the train about writing and books and all things shiny, and then later catching a cab, where my silver-bearded 60s-rock-loving driver made me laugh with jokes about Keith Moon, Gene Pitney and Bill Bailey.
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A silver-bearded man with a beaming smile, Josphat has been a tailor for more than 20 years.
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A year ago, Mr. Nulty, a silver-bearded economist with 35 years of telecommunications experience, was tapped by a group of small towns here along the Green Mountains to build a fiber-optic network that would provide high-speed Web access to their citizens.
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Poised and self-assured, she has come to meet Dr Suhaib Hasan, a silver-bearded sheikh who sits behind his desk, surrounded by religious books.
Personal sharia law in the UK.... GayandRight 2008
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Striping away the popular image of serene, silver-bearded wisdom, Rita Skeeter reveals the disturbed childhood, the lawless youth, the life-long feuds, and the guilty secrets that Dumbledore carried to his grave, WHY was the man tipped to be the Minister of Magic content to remain a mere headmaster?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007
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The occasion was a seventieth-birthday dinner for John Greenleaf Whittier, a silver-bearded Brahmin to the core: protégé of the abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison; stalwart patron of the Atlantic; essayist; a founder of the Republican Party; sturdy versifier in rhyming tetrameter, his stanzas marching forward through the parlors and the firesides of the new republic like so many fifers and drummers.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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