Word: unkempt
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...pupils in his Paris school, Pierre Larousse was a "small, dumpy man, his beard unkempt, his eyes sparkling-an introverted, sinister plodder strongly suspected of subversive ideas." But subversive or not, Pierre Larousse had one idea for which France has long been grateful. "I want," he announced in 1863, "to teach everyone everything...
...rarest coincidence, he saw a grey-haired, bespectacled man with an oddly shaped left ear step off a bus in Orange (pop. 21,174), Texas. Seigenthaler was instantly discouraged: the man limped badly. But the reporter followed his quarry through a quiet neighborhood to a white, comfortably unkempt frame house. The thin, limping man was Thomas D. Palmer, a television salesman. His wife, a motherly looking woman, worked as a court reporter and often toiled at home after hours, typing legal documents. They had six children-two married daughters, a son in the Marine Corps, a crippled 14-year...
Rhymester David McCord is fascinated by what happened to the positive form of such common words as inept, inert, disheveled, uncouth and unkempt. For years, McCord, who is secretary of the Alumni Fund of Harvard University and a well-known writer of light verse, has waged a happy campaign for the restoration of what he calls the Lost Positive. For amusement he writes sprightly rhymes full of positives, like the one above (which he calls Gloss) published in the January Harper's Magazine...
...apartment for little chats with Jakobson; they stop in with a question, to solicit encouragement, or to draw Jakobson into an illuminating discussion. Employing his unbelievable energy even in conversation, he gesticulates constantly, emphasizing his remarks with a stab of his hand, or by running a hand through his unkempt hair when puzzled...
Philbrick and the people who helped him whip up his story late book form have tried to jazz up this unkempt new of material. Regrettably they menage only to give Philbrick's work an air of musical-comedy intrigue which pretty well befogs anything serious he has to say. His woman co-Communists are all drawn in the image of Max Shulman's Yetts Samovar; they are bright, sophisticated, stringy-haired, and wear sensible flat shoes as they go about their nefarious work. His men meet conspiratorially in darkened alleys. His Communist cells are all "mystery" groups thinking up "mystery...