Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King. Rumania's Communist matriarch, grey, unkempt Ana Pauker, demanded "peoples' courts to judge those who have betrayed the interests of the people . . . dissolution of Maniu's party and arrest of all its traitorous leaders...
...Buenos Aires province. Her father, Juan Duarte, was a handsome and susceptible small landowner of nearby Chivilcoy. Her mother was a dark-eyed Basque named Juana Ibarguren, whose charms were sufficient to lure Juan from his wife. The couple set up housekeeping in a tumbledown house with an unkempt yard overrun by chickens. They had five children, of whom Eva was the last...
Dirtiest city: Indianapolis, "unkempt . . . unswept . . . a terrific place for basketball . . . auto racing . . . the American Legion...
...great grandstand rose at Mexico City's Balbuena Airport. Along the road to town, workers paved the walks and turfed the unkempt fields. In the city, little groups of men labored past midnight, filling in every last crack in the pavement that Harry Truman would ride over. Every boulevard shrub had been freshly manured to make the capital a little greener for its first visit, this week, from a U.S. President...
...full-length biography of Tolstoy is the picture it gives of the great Russian as a young man. Both of the novels by which he is best remembered were written later: War and Peace in his 30s and Anna Karenina in his 40s. They were not written by the unkempt peasant-patriarch of the last publicized years of Tolstoy's life, but by a rude aristocrat of tremendous energy...