Word: rumpledness
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Rope and Chains. It was not that the Prime Minister had gone unduly democratic. Always the courtly squire in the artistocratically rumpled suit, he responded to crowds with a wave that seldom took his arm above his shoulder, and they liked him for not trying to be what he was...
The despair of corn-belt grammarians, Democratic Governor Herschel Cellel Loveless ("the Democrats have did") is also the despair of Iowa Republicans, still smarting at Loveless' conquest of the traditionally Republican state capital in 1956. Pitted against Loveless this year is tall, lean, scholarly William G. Murray, 55, professor...
Weary-eyed, a little rumpled and sniffling from a cold caught somewhere between Athens and Rome, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State Robert Daniel Murphy eased his 6 ft. 2 in. gratefully into a seat in Columbine III. Turning to his traveling companion, Murphy began talking quietly, steadily of the...
At midafternoon, Reuters agency announced that its Moscow correspondent had been cut off as he was telephoning his account of the rioting mobs before the West German embassy (see FOREIGN NEWS). Most Fleet Street editors sighed resignedly and sat back to wait until the Russian censor lifted the blackout. But...
"Jumblatt controls 20 villages and an army of about 2,000 wool-capped tribesmen who carry grenades slung from belts and watch fobs, and shoulder Italian submachine guns as casually as hoes. Tall, thin, hawk-nosed, and dressed in slightly rumpled grey suit, Jumblatt himself is a somewhat intellectual mountaineer...