Word: unshaven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promptly name him sheriff, presumably on the theory that it is better to have a bad sheriff who can shoot fast than a good one who can't. It is a tribute to Quinn's inventiveness that by scratching, bumbling, slobbering and gazing dumbly out of his unshaven face, he manages to make a conventional pasteboard character seem like a real human slob...
...Toronto stock-brokerage firm set up a branch office in Chibougamau, now handles $500,000 worth of business a week. The town's four hotels (a fifth is building) seldom bother to take down their "no vacancy" signs, and their barrooms are perpetually jammed around the clock with unshaven miners and prospectors just in from the bush, and ready to swing a rock-hard fist at the drop of an insult...
...short notice, and unshaven on his arrival, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold last week dropped in on Israel for what he insisted was a "personal visit." Since the Secretary-General had made a tour of the Middle East less than three months ago, and was not expected to return again until October, something was obviously up. For eight hours he talked with testy Premier David Ben-Gurion. Hammarskjold wanted reassurances that B-G was not about to break the peace. The U.N. mediator had been concerned by B-G's recent threat to U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Burns...
...Robert Richards was mildly apologetic for the stubble that darkened his unshaven face. "I always try to look rough on these days," he explained. But 5 o'clock shadow did not scare off his fans. The crowd on hand at Indiana's Wabash College for the National A.A.U. decathlon championship-the trials to determine U.S. Olympic contenders-dogged Bob Richards' every step...
...could reasonably be expected to sit through one hour staring at the same face on the same small screen. Classroom TV is supposed to 'quicken an interest.' In fact, nothing turned out to be more dampening than the flickering image of an elderly teacher, looking weary and unshaven under the television lights. Jokes fall flat, emphasis is missed, and the lack of any personal relationship proves stultifying...