Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...army of The Netherlands is probably the raunchiest-looking fighting force in the world. In startling contrast to the red-jacketed guardsmen who stand stiffly at attention outside Buckingham Palace, the honor guards in front of the royal palace on the Dam Square in Amsterdam usually have unkempt uniforms, straggly beards and lank shoulder-length hair. In fact, they look more like refugees from a rock group than members of a NATO contingent that might some day have to face the Red Army in combat. Yet, in one sense, the army of The Netherlands is the most modern...
From the sidewalk, an unkempt man taunted the demonstrators. "I escaped from the East to see you?" he kept repeating, with some astonishment. Another bystander jeered: "Why don't you all just go over to the other side?" The young people laughed...
...bushy-haired Leon Botstein became president of New Hampshire's Franconia College in 1970. He immediately imposed one unusual new rule: no dogs on campus. "Fifty unkempt dogs running around was just too much," said Botstein, "so I got rid of them...
...exact sciences British achievements remain staggering. But in the humanities, if you ask where the great philosophical movement is, there is only a long silence. It is an awfully dead period. There have been 40 years of restoring order, sweeping and tidying up what had been all the rampant, unkempt, even outdated collections of philosophical theories. Now everything is clean, in perfect order and ready for bold new departures. But nothing has happened, so everyone goes on polishing...
...trip to Italy last summer, I was dismayed and sickened at the unkempt sight of Rome and its historical monuments. It seemed as though the Italians had very little pride in their priceless surroundings. Perhaps one of the things I will most remember about Rome is that while standing in the Colosseum in the midst of newspapers, magazines and watermelon rinds, I watched as a man fed perhaps 30 cats, which were apparently being kept in order to control the rat population...