Word: unshaven
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...muddy foxhole in central Korea crouched battlewise Colonel William Harris, commander of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. The colonel was unshaven and bone tired; his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. A sodden G.I. blanket around his shoulders inadequately shielded him from the pouring rain. "This," said the colonel, "is the worst...
...conscientiously records many of the situations and captions of Mauldin's cartoons, it never catches the spirit of the best of his wartime sketches. Mauldin's line drawings were not only picturesque and funny; they also made a biting, authentic commentary on the lot of the miserable, unshaven, mud-caked footslogger. Up Front operates instead at the level of the comic strip, or the familiar Hollywood service comedy...
...could not identify most of them, but carefully copied the laundry marks in their clothing. Then he helped enshroud his students in sheets. At 9, the party, carrying the shrouded bodies slung between poles, began its downhill procession. At the foot of the mountain, footsore and unshaven, Padre Vélaz met and talked with some of the boys' fathers, completed the work of identification by telegraphing for a list of school laundry numbers. Then he took charge and directed the task of soldering the zinc coffins...
...when they produced Simons, the affair began to sound oddly like something from a musical comedy. He turned out to be a mild-mannered, unshaven little man who smoked a pipe. He admitted his sins with a cheerful and relieved...
Philadelphia Bulletin Columnist Earl Selby started the day in a peculiar manner, came down to breakfast one morning with his face unshaven, and wearing the shabbiest clothes he could find. He sprinkled the contents of a vacuum cleaner over himself, then doused himself with stale beer. Selby's slim, red-haired wife Dorothy was not the least bit surprised at this performance...