Word: careworn
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Franklin Roosevelt was coatless; his thinning grey hair was neatly combed. Though his face still had the thin and careworn look it has worn for months, he was lightly tanned, and looked rested and fit. This answered Question No. 1: how does he look? And immediately they got an answer to Question No. 2: how does he feel...
...houses of Belgrade that the Austrians had shelled into ruins. Bonsal had walked un moved over the battlefields at Verdun, where many of the corpses were still unburied, "with still protruding, beseeching arms. ..." On Armistice Night in Paris Bonsal had met a brilliant Italian journalist with a careworn face who told him : "Yes, we have an armistice; the ora formidabile has struck." By spring that formidable hour had grown to a day& -night nightmare of deepening chaos. "All man's work has been destroyed by man's diabolical inventions," Bonsal notes...
With grave, careworn Cordell Hull the reason is partly age (69 years j. Buried in the paper-shuffling details of his mountainous task, he very often does not realize what goes on in the intrigue-ridden old halls of the rococo Department. This rough judgment, made solely in the blazing exigencies of wartime, and without regard to the saintly Tennesseean's years of patient, farseeing service, is current in Washington...
...savage Boer War and much strife thereafter have made Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog sad-faced and careworn. To a caucus of his United Party at Oudtshoorn last week the droop-whiskered veteran said with grim conviction...
...women in sports clothes hurrying along neat walks with bridge lamps, books, trash baskets, suitcases. Three hundred and seventy of them were freshmen. After supper they and 854 upperclassmen trooped into a red-roofed, Collegiate-Gothic chapel. There President Henry Noble MacCracken, his full, pink face looking some-what careworn, droned a mild message of greeting to the effect that while three-score years and ten is a respectable age for a human, it is mere childhood for an up & coming institution like Vassar...