Word: rumpledness
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A white-haired man shuffled into Los Angeles superior court. His pants cuffs spilled two inches over his shoes. A wide necktie flopped across his rumpled blue shirt, his collar tabs curled like potato chips. He was Arthur Garrett, 63, lawyer for the plaintiff-who also happened to be Arthur...
Well trained in both conventional and guerrilla warfare, the Chinese foot soldier is amply armed with Chinese-made automatic weapons-usually a stamped copy of the Russian World War II vent-barreled burp gun. He is supported by light and medium mortars, bazooka-style rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and artillery...
He looks like a big shaggy beast that has been out in the rain. Rumpled suit, tangled hair, drooping moustache, he lumbers onto the stage and stares in shy bewilderment at the audience. Rivulets of sweat stream down his face. He hikes one stumpy leg onto a straight-back chair...
The hero of the novel answers to the name of Mason Jarrett, but he strongly resembles guntherized Gunther. A rumpled bear of a man, working for a Chicago paper, he covers all southeastern Europe from Istanbul to Prague. Jarrett also has Gunther's herculean capacity for hard work, his...
The mellifluent, loquacious, rumpled, dimpled, damp, and wondrous Wizard of Ooze has done it again; Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen has confounded nearly everyone by announcing that he will place in nomination at the Republican convention the name of a man whom he denounced strongly in the Senate only eleven days...