Word: rumpledness
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Assembly on the Spot. All day and all night the grappling went on. Mendès took a nap on the cot in his office, then, tugging at his rumpled suit, returned to the floor to fight his way out of an old beartrap of French politics-the "war of...
THE province of Old Castile is the center and heart of Spain, the seat of the nation's gone but remembered glory and power. It is still studded with walled towns and fortresses; its name is derived from castillo, which means castle. Old Castile covers the northern part of...
Arthur F. (for Frank) Burns rumpled his bushy hair, scrawled a final correction on the document before him, brushed away the shreds of Blue Boar' tobacco which littered his vest, and wearily got up from his desk. It was 2 a.m., and Burns, the chairman of President Eisenhower'...
The Lawyer. Ambassador Dean, 55, was sent to Panmunjom last October by his longtime law partner in Sullivan & Cromwell, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. He arrived in a neat, pinstriped suit and polished, low-cut shoes. But as the days wore on Dean changed to the only other outfit...
After the Assembly had heard Daladier, big, rumpled Premier Laniel put the case for fighting on in Indo-China. "We want to make perfectly clear to the enemy," he said, "that he has not a single chance of obtaining by force the departure of our troops ... I think that it...