Word: unwashedness
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(Later, back in civilization, hairdressers were amazed by Connie's hair; unwashed for nearly half a year, it had become gleaming and entirely dandruff-free.) The last 100 miles was a race against time: as they neared the Bering Sea the ice began to creep up on them from...
¶ Russian-born Writer Maurice Hindus saw "a long column of captured Germans shuffling along. . . . Unwashed, unshaven and ragged, they barely dragged their feet over the dusty, rutted ground. Among them was a lieutenant colonel. 'We had no food, no ammunition,' he said. 'Our position was hopeless...
"When we moved on to Kashgar the trip was out of this world. The governor gave us a car but we had to supply our own gasoline (it cost 45,000 Chinese dollars). We started off with a party of nine: myself and LIFE Photographer Bill Vandivert, a crack Chinese...
After Waterloo. Politics and his infatuation for Napoleon at last became an obsession. Wherever Hazlitt went, complained one of his friends, he took his politics "like a mastiff, by his side." Cried Hazlitt: "There was at no time so great danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as...
When a land mine exploded in the midst of Indian troops in the Middle East, it left 60 casualties with broken eardrums in one or both ears. Of the wounded, the ones who fared best were those whose unwashed ears were plugged with accumulated wax.