Word: unshaven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...escape route, and you break out, breathless, into the welcome air of some more coal yards. But do not count on your escape. For eventually you must arrive at that squalid square where all the one-way signs point inward. It is a large area, teeming with unshaven men who will approach you and offer you fifty dollars spot cash for your car and throw in a train ticket to Boston; a square where cars go to die. Sell your car there, and be glad to get out alive. But better still, trust not to Providence. Trust instead...
...beds of Amazon River tributaries in remotest Amapá territory, the glitter of gold has set off periodic rushes since 1893. Early in June a ragged, unshaven prospector stomped into a river village with word of the latest strike. To pay for medicine, food and tools, he had a poke of alluvial nuggets, which he had found in a branch of the Jari River...
...pleasant Edwardian day, that paragon of propriety, Henry James, went down to Sussex to pay a call on G. K. Chesterton. "It was a very stately call," wrote Chesterton, with James all buttoned-up in a frock coat. Suddenly, a terrible bellowing broke out and two unshaven hoboes in workers' "reach-me-downs" burst in. They had walked all the way from Dover after spending their last penny in France, but they had enough strength left to quarrel furiously-"accusing each other of having secretly washed, in violation of an implied contract between tramps." Henry James is said...
...thumb through this handsome book, as Mauldin's outfit moves from training stateside to Sicily, then Italy, the top sergeant gags disappear. Instead there are the drawings that eventually took Mauldin away from his division and gave his a job doing them full time--the wry drawings of tired, unshaven men, fighting a tough and unglamorous war, of muddy soldiers sleeping on their feet, kidnapping replacements, fighting from mountain to mountain in an unfunny struggle to keep warm, dry, and alive...
...sergeant ducked out, the corpsman guided in another patient, also a sergeant and squad leader. His face was unshaven, his bushy brown hair uncombed. As Cole studied his record, the man pulled nervously at a cigarette. Cole used his standard opening: "George, can you tell me what happened...