Word: shirttails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with hokum-well, I guess that's O.K., but it keeps me from being an effective political speaker"), Kennedy instead imparts a remarkable quality of shy, sensemaking sincerity. He is certainly the only member of the U.S. Congress who could-as he did-make a speech with his shirttail hanging out and get gallery ahs instead...
...awful." He was among the smallest in his class, and perhaps the sloppiest cadet the Point had ever seen. Once, when the cadets were ordered to wear side arms to chapel, Wood forgetfully marched in with a rifle. Another time, he showed up for guard duty with his shirttail hanging out, and was saved by a friend who threw a raincoat around him. Eventually he put on enough muscle and height so that he was twice selected to represent his class in bare-knuckle bouts with plebes. According to the code of the Point, the plebes could escape hazing...