Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a word for venal treachery faced nine judges (five of them laymen) in an old Oslo lodge hall. There was no shred of dignity in his defense, only a trace of defiance in his demeanor. He sat lumpily in the prisoner's box, his reddish, thinning hair unkempt, his neck shrunken in an oversize collar, his blue eyes beady in a suet face...
...lampooning, which he freely admits is sometimes "seditious." Some brass hats complained that Willie and Joe did the U.S. Army no credit. Well known by now is the story of General George Patton threatening to have Stars & Stripes banned from his Third Army as long as Mauldin's unkempt heroes appeared in it. Patton and Mauldin were told by Eisenhower's headquarters to discuss the matter. Said Mauldin after the conference: "I came out with all my hide on." Stars & Stripes continued to circulate in the Third Army...
...45th slogged north through the Apennines for four months, with virtually no rest. Its infantrymen were the men Sergeant Bill Mauldin, himself a 45th Division soldier, drew in his cartoons-unshaven, unkempt, unbeatable. They were pulled out of the line only after they had cleared the approaches to Cassino, given a few days rest. Then they were sent into the smoky, battered beachhead at Anzio. A headquarters commandant grimly noted: "In the last months I have seen six battalion commanders come...
Suddenly Manila's unkempt streets swarmed with men, women & children, shouting "Veektory!" and "Mabuhay!" -the Tagalog "Hurrah!" From the little the Japs had left them, from the fullness of their hearts, the Filipinos pressed gifts on their deliverers. A small boy darted out to hand a precious egg to one startled American. Other Manilans broke into a Jap-operated brewery, lavished bottles of beer on their liberators. One gaunt, toothless, ragged woman had nothing to give. But she hobbled out to catch and kiss the hand of an embarrassed colonel. She sobbed: "God bless you, sir! God bless...
...deaf, weary, unkempt man of 66 died of myocarditis at the little coastal hospital in Ellsworth, Me. in September 1943, and only other painters made much note of the news that Marsden Hartley was gone. But when 111 of his 700-odd works were seen in Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art's current Hartley exhibition, many critics began to feel that they added up to a major U.S. artistic achievement...