Word: rumpledness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At noon one day last week, Ford workers in the mile-long Rouge plant were scheduled to get strike orders. Reuther and Bugas negotiated through the preceding night and into the morning. As noon neared, unshaved, rumpled newsmen who had waited up all night crammed into the corridor outside the...
Heads Underfoot. Sculptor Giacometti fits comfortably into this cramped clutter. Lying among the spare furnishings-a black potbellied stove, rumpled cot and banged-up chair-are strange sculptured objects: 6-ft.-tall female caryatid forms whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking...
But one strikingly different figure dominates the whole party: a thick little man, in a dirty, rumpled suit, with tousled hair on a bulging gnome's head, who is swigging boilermakers. He is also roaring out stories, laughing, pinching the girls, charming all who push into range of his...
For the past, three days inhabitants of Adams and Leverett Houses had eaten is lightly clad luxury, but a reminder from the Dean's office has brought back the rumpled seersucker jacket and the gaping collar. Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, and Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House...
After 24 hours of continuous negotiations, a rumpled three-man Government board last week announced tentative settlement of the 57-day strike called by nonoperating workers against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad and its subsidiaries. The walkout had affected 29,000 workers and curtailed traffic in 14 states.