Word: unshavenness
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...Russian raids caused the black-marketeers to increase their vigilance but they stayed in business. Money-changers with gaudy new marks in both hands shuffled along, murmuring: "East for West, West for East." The rate went up from 3 to 3.2 East marks for one West mark. Two unshaven old men, selling potatoes from heavy knapsacks, stared at a barbed-wire fence put up by the British. One said: "It won't be long until they have barbed wire all over the city." The other said: "Come along. The air is too thick around here...
Next afternoon, unshaven and dressed in rags, I joined some 30 shabbily dressed Paraguayans in the unpaved street before Asuncion's decaying prison close by the river front. An old man carrying a package of medicines for his son got me past the swarthy Indian guard...
...time Warren returned to his hotel. Still unshaven, he talked briefly with the California delegation. Out at Convention Hall, the delegates idled in confusion, sweat and irritation, while the conference went on in Room 808. At 11:30 Dewey called Warren, told him he was the almost unanimous choice. His conditions would be met. The decision was relayed to the convention floor...
...camera had the run of the city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
...Legion could not move far without a green light from the British, on whom it has depended for money, arms and leadership. One of Abdullah's visitors last week was Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, mild-mannered secretary general of the Arab League. He made no rash claims. Unshaven and weary, with his tarboosh pushed far back on his head, he admitted disconsolately that the Arabs were "the most inefficient and undisciplined people in the world." They could not at present, he thought, defeat the Jews in pitched battles, but he claimed that they would win in the end. Asked...