Word: unshavenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dusty parking lot in San Angelo, Texas, was jammed with out-of-state cars from as far away as Pennsylvania, and the stands that were built to handle 1,400 spectators had to make do for 3,500. Unshaven cowboys in faded Levi's waved fistfuls of greenbacks and haggled over the odds with Houston oilmen in embroidered shirts. A volunteer comedian told ancient jokes to try to keep tension down as the crowd awaited the biggest rodeo event in years: a matched roping contest between two champion lariat handlers. The stakes were $3,700 in cash, a share...
Last week, at Mount Sterling, which used to be called Little Mountain Town, the hillmen gathered for the traditional "Court Day''-marking the opening of the fall term of the county court. Many were unshaven. Their faces were criss crossed with the wounds of weather. They wore battered hats, carried pistols in their pockets. They sold their tin cans filled with rich sorghum molasses, swapped shotguns, powder horns and hunting dogs, bought snake oil, ax handles and buckets of yams. Into their midst walked the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, a man with the alliterative name...
...Keenan talks in obsessive clichés about the threat of "foreigners and blacks," is too troubled by nightmarish fear of the Blessed Virgin to get married. Ex-Schoolteacher Zoe Bryce broods endlessly upon her first kiss, which occurred when she was 37. It was perpetrated by an unshaven seaman who crept to her bed in the ship's hospital, kissed her and disappeared unrecognized forever...
...Unshaven Scholarship. A tall, green-eyed, 29-year-old Irishman with an overflow of dark blond hair, O'Toole is at least prepared for his prepackaged stardom. Unlike, say, Warren Beatty-who had never been seen in anything more exacting than a high school football game before being hailed as a superstar-Peter O'Toole was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and is a veteran of both the Bristol Old Vic and the Shakespeare company at Stratford on Avon. Critics have variously cited his "huge resources" and "sinewy vitality," his capacity to deliver lines...
...called into the navy. After he was demobbed, he spent his service pay wandering around England, and 23 of his last 30 shillings went for a ticket to see Sir Michael Redgrave impersonate King Lear at Stratford. He hitchhiked to London the next day, walked into the Royal Academy unshaven, and demanded an audition. He won a scholarship...