Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neither, any more, is Korbut. Now 21, Olga provided the Montreal Games with a haunting figure that may be remembered as vividly as the little girl who won two individual gold medals and one silver at the '72 Olympics in Munich. Her hair unkempt, the red bows on her two pony tails askew, her face at moments haggard beyond middle age, she displayed an overwhelming desire for victory while faced with certain defeat. She ignored Comaneci, refused to watch her rival perform. At one point Korbut burst into tears, at another ostentatiously iced an ailing ankle ("Every athlete always...
Birkdale, in the mold of Prestwick where the first Open was held, is an unkempt links-land course whittled by the elements, running along the railway line between Liverpool and Southport. The dunes that straddle the fairways and perpetually tearing winds along with four par fives in the last six holes exact the utmost of poise, resilience and control from the field...
...British lieutenant colonel of infantry who took up soldiering at the age of 15, learned six languages, once served as major general to the King of Poland, is an adopted son of a Mohawk tribe, and has lately been celebrated as a pamphleteer against the British Crown. A gaunt unkempt figure racked with gout, Lee is highly critical of other men's soldierly skills. "Booby-in-chief' was his sobriquet for one hapless general under whom he served during the French and Indian...
Thirteen years ago, four young boys from Liverpool disembarked from a BOAC jet in New York. Their hair was long and unkempt; they took the Ed Sullivan Show by storm, and all America soon fell prey to Beatlemania. Well, the boys have grown old now, and an anxious continent waits for their return. Well, I got news. They aren't ever coming back. But guess who's coming on Sunday? No! you say. It can't be true! But it is! Bob Marley and the Wailers are coming to The Music Hall on Sunday...
Another intriguing place in Central Square is the Odd Fellows Hall, a narrow brick building with stained glass windows. The Joy of Movement Center rents it now, but an outgoing dancer with unkempt hair and lots of bedraggled skirts assured me that there are still Odd Fellows in Central Square; she said the organization was "for old men, essentially, like the Elks or the Moose Club." There must be something to this group that the other two lack, though, because it alone rates a cryptic definition in the American Heritage Dictionary: "Odd Fellow: A member of the Independent Order...