Word: turtlenecked
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...late at night. In the austere conference room of the British military headquarters in Athens stood four dejected Greeks. Three were dressed in ragged civilian clothes. The fourth wore the dirt-stained uniform of the guerrilla forces (which included a turtleneck sweater). All were haggard and unshaven. They were the delegates of the ELAS Central Committee. No one spoke...
...Tammany politician. He quit school around the seventh grade, ran errands, worked as a glasswasher, photo-engraver, took piano lessons. At 17 Jimmy got his first professional job as a pianist-in Diamond Tony's saloon at "Cooney Island." The skinny, homely piano pounder in a black turtleneck sweater did not drink much (nor does he to this day, save occasionally, out of politeness...
...stretch of sea duty, Inspector of Ordnance at the Newport, R.I. Naval Torpedo Station, executive officer of the U.S.S. Minnesota, commander of submarines in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. In 1931 he became Superintendent of the Naval Academy, won a rear admiral's rank, the nickname "Turtleneck" and the gratitude of football fans by settling a squabble with West Point over the eligibility of players, which resulted in resumption of the Army-Navy games after a lapse of two years...
...late Dr. Williams, a shaggy-browed, sot-in-his-ways New Englander, who loved his old checkered cap more than he did the limelight, is less famed than his coaching contemporaries: Chicago's Amos Alonzo Stagg (his friend and football teammate in their turtleneck days at Yale) and Michigan's Fielding H. Yost (his archrival for 20 years). But the good doctor, who practiced gynecology nine months of the year during his coaching days at Minnesota, conceived many football maneuvers-notably the Minnesota Shift, forerunner of all quick shifts-that played an important part in the development...
...trouble that rose from pushing over Elwood outhouses (sometimes with outraged citizens in them), on through college, when he was so pugnaciously nonconformist as to organize the "barbs" against the fraternity men. He had always eventually conformed, but always on his own terms. In his last year as a turtleneck-sweatered roughneck at Indiana University he did join a fraternity, Beta Theta Pi, best on the campus, whose requirements were: a slick blond pompadour and more money than brains. Willkie had neither...