Word: rumpledness
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Just outside of Livingston, Ala. the dusty 1941 Buick convertible pulled up beside the road. Four men pored over rumpled road maps. The sallow one with tousled, thinning grey hair said he wanted to get to Moscow. He said it in Russian. The maps didn't help; the whim...
All afternoon there were signs of storm. Wall posters at Manhattan rail terminals warned that train service might soon cease. Midtown telephone switchboards glowed and twinkled with extra calls. Business firms dismissed employes hours early. In trickles, then torrents, the city's half-million commuters headed for trains. So...
They looked exactly like what they are: oldtime railroad hands who had prospered after their retirement from hard labor. Alexander Fell Whitney is an affable man who asks almost everybody on second meeting to "Call me Al." He is square-shouldered and peppery, a handsome, wavy-haired oldster (73) with...
Tall and grey, his face gaunt, his SS uniform rumpled and shorn of insignia, the condemned man last week faced his judges in the grim yard of Prague's Pankrac Prison. Ranged before him were the judge and jury who had tried him two days before. The yard was...
At week's end, Chicago had the answer. A rumpled, sore-eyed, unshaven Negro was turned loose on a Chicago side street. (The Daily News set the ransom at $100,000.) Ed couldn't seem to remember the kidnaping, his connection with the policy racket, or anything else...