Word: unshavenness
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Since Willie and Joe, his unshaven, unforgettable infantrymen, won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin has done some syndicate drawing and free-lance writing, puddle-jumped in his private plane, and lives as an exurbanite in New York's Rockland County. He has also dabbled in Democratic politics but has never run for public office. Last week he decided...
...Ordinary Frenchman. Pierre Poujade looks like a peasant and makes the most of it. He avoids ties in favor of turtleneck sweaters or open-throat shirts. His shoes are often unshined, his pants unpressed, his nails dirty, his light beard unshaven. He prefers his country red wine to champagne, the kitchen to the living room, and he drinks his soup from his plate. He boasts that he has no book learning. "Why should I study books? I know more already than the people who wrote them." He tells crowds: "I'm just le petit Poujade, an ordinary Frenchman like...
When the returns came in late election night, Greece's handsome Premier Constantine Karamanlis was tired, unshaven, untalkative. "We're dog tired," said his pretty young (28) wife, leaning against her husband's broad shoulder. For six weeks six-footer Karamanlis had tramped and traveled from snow-choked passes in Macedonia to sun-washed villages in the Peloponnesus to defend his pro-Western policy against the coalition formed against him by three disgruntled ex-Premiers in league with the remnant of the outlawed Communist Party. "I stand alone. I am one against all," he proclaimed defiantly...
...after sleeping fitfully across the U.S. Only a few supporters were there to handshake. By sheer coincidence, Attorney General Edmund ("Pat") Brown, the most important elected Democratic official in California, had just flown in from San Diego and was waiting for his luggage. "Why hello, Pat," said the unshaven Kefauver. "You need a shave." Brown, who had been called a Stevenson "boss" by Kefauver's supporters, grinned and cracked: "When you're a boss spending a lot of time in a smoke-filled room, you always need a shave...
...Star from the Korean ambassador at a ceremony in Washington, and reminisced about how he won it. Five years ago, as Captain Leonard P. LaRue of the S.S. Meredith Victory, he was freighting supplies to Korea. "The once fine city of Hungnam was gasping in its death throes. Five unshaven Army colonels came aboard. 'Captain, we need your assistance,' one said. 'Thousands of men, women and children are here. We have to get them out. Will you help us?' That heart-rending plea needed no reply. It had been answered 20 centuries ago: 'Whatsoever...