Word: unshaven
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...next night, and the next, the sirens sounded for light, hit-& -run raids. On the fifth night the heavy bombers came once more in force, planted new fires beside the old. Berliners were wearier, dirtier, grimmer as they worked to clear up the damage. Men were unshaven for lack of water. Food stores were closing down...
...Partisans appeared: a hard-faced, unshaven man with a red star sewn to his cap and a 16-year-old, lugging an Italian bandoleer and carbine. Swiftly De Luce was passed from hand to hand, always upward, away from the sea, into the Dinaric Alps...
...realized, for flesh and blood. Considering Miss Bergman's mental picture of an American female executive, the casting of the role was brilliantly lucky. He sent over a particularly tactful lady named Kay Brown. And that did it. Miss Bergman was braced to resist something in unshaven tweeds with a Cremo breath and a voice like a moose decoy. What she met was "so sweet and human that I decided that anyone she worked for" (Mr. Selznick walked up the walls in devilish glee) "couldn't be nearly so crazy as I expected." When, in early April...
...walking. They are 50 feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary. . . . It is the terrible deliberation of each step that spells out their tiredness. Their faces are black and unshaven. They are young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion make them look middleaged. In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory-there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever...
...jumped on it and stalked away. All told, Hughes shot 450,000 feet of film (the complete picture: 10,200 feet). On the set, where shooting took place mostly at night (to allow Hughes to design planes for Henry J. Kaiser by day), he was usually unshaven, always unpredictable. He would phone his assistants at home at all hours and announce: "This is Mr. Hoyt." Often there would follow a long silence, broken finally when Hughes would bark briskly: "I just thought of something; I'll call you back later...