Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weary and unkempt, 46-year-old Chesty watched from under his awning as his men dug the Japs out of their limestone caves. "How do we get them out?" he said somberly. "By blood, sweat, and hand grenades...
Swedes saw frail Professor Sakimura, unshaven and unkempt, wandering through Stockholm's parks, sometimes slumped in dejection on a bench, or stretched in fitful sleep behind a hedge. Last week the struggle with his conscience ended. Swedes saw four Jap officials hustling haggard Professor Sakimura to a waiting Berlin plane...
...obsession. Wherever Hazlitt went, complained one of his friends, he took his politics "like a mastiff, by his side." Cried Hazlitt: "There was at no time so great danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments." After Waterloo, Hazlitt sank into unkempt despair. While Poet Laureate Southey and Poet Laureate-to-be Wordsworth celebrated Britain's victory with "boiled plum puddings" eaten al fresco by the light of blazing tar barrels, Hazlitt "walked about, unwashed, unshaved, hardly sober by day, and always intoxicated by night...
...refugee plants" from western Russia, the factory lies somewhere in a "deserted prairie valley"-presumably on the eastern fringe of European Russia. In some respects, the account resembled descriptions of new plants in U.S. boom towns. As yet the factory is unkempt and ragged. A railroad has been laid, but there are no busses or streetcars. In the spring and fall "it is no pleasant matter for the Workers to make their way home through the welling mud." But the vast factory hums with work, and thousands pass through its gates each shift. The buildings are camouflaged, for when they...
...Philadelphian's civic pride. At the last moment, Franklin Roosevelt called the attacks on Bullitt a "mass of falsehoods." But the endorsement had no effect. Bill Bullitt was hurled back into private life; Barney Samuel got ready for four years of complaints about the nauseous drinking water, the unkempt streets, the lagging fire department, the unbuttoned police, the erratic taxes, and himself...