Word: droops
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...bones was hideously striking to the eye . . '. the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible ... he often had convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, " sometimes "rolled himself about in a strange, ridiculous manner." He wore tattered wigs and filthy shirts ("I have no love for cleanliness"), let his stockings droop around his ankles, ate so gluttingly that his veins protruded and he sweated violently. He could drink 25 cups of tea at a sitting, often gobbled eight peaches as a breakfast appetizer. He swilled his favorite medicine: "Dr. James's Powder for Fevers and Other Inflammatory Distempers." "I mind my belly...
...should be made to walk one mile, then stand in a fish queue for an hour. By the end of this time his utility stockings would [droop] from knee to instep in snakelike coils and twists. His corset would have wilted into an uncomfortable, revolting mass of cotton and cardboard. He would find himself supporting the corset, instead of the corset supporting...
...Dangling your arms between well-sagged knees, woggle your shoulders and touch an ear on the upward movement. Between woggles, droop shoulder...
...lucky, however, in that his Luftwaffe commander is jowly, droop-mouthed Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle. Fat as he is, Sperrle knows how to move fast, how to stretch an air force and still get the most out of it. One of Göring's white-haired (before he lost it) boys, Hugo Sperrle commanded the famed Condor Legion in Spain, did wonders with short and ill-assorted equipment. He went through Poland, the Lowlands, France. He knows what air war is about...
...from Moscow. When Ghormley became a maker of battles, even his old classmates found that they really knew little of their friend. They could describe his thin grey hair, his stern mouth, his droop-lidded eyes. They could discourse on his geniality when he relaxed over a drink, on the calm, unexcited way of his command of a battleship, of his respect for the opinions of his staff officers before his own decisions were made. But few of them had ever got to the inside of the man. When they tried, by thinking back over his friendship, they decided that...