Word: careworn
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Giovanni Mannu, 37, a careworn Sardinian coal miner with a red mustache, went to bed one night as usual-a poor proletarian who had pledged his faith and taken out a card in Italy's Communist Party. Next day he was rich...
...left the presidency (she will remain an advisor), her place was taken this week by Ralph P. Lewis, until recently vice president and sales manager for Elizabeth Arden. For the careworn cosmetics business, Chuck Luckman promised a face lifting. Said he: "We're going to get in there and sell like hell...
...over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...
After six days, tired, careworn Sergio Osmena conceded defeat. In self-assured tones, Manuel Roxas outlined his program to U.S. newsmen. He said that he would seek an immediate U.S. loan for rehabilitation, promised full cooperation with U.S. policy in the Far East...
...before he ran into yet another embarrassment. Free on bail pending appeal, the mayor had been given a brass-band welcome by devoted Bostonians; then somebody chose to bellyache about a new constable he had just appointed: Frank J. Moriarty, alias "Turkey" Joyce, oldtime housebreaker and off-&-on jailbird. Careworn Statesman Curley sighed, bowed to the popular will, booted out Moriarty...