Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public Flogging. His outspoken defiance turned Sir Humphrey, 63, a gaunt and rangy Englishman who settled in Rhodesia 37 years ago, into the foremost symbol of opposition to the Smith regime. Staying with him in Government House was Rhodesia's Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle. Outside, more than 3,000 Rhodesians, white and black alike, stood in line last week to sign his guest book...
...Colonel Houari Boumedi enne's first acts after he seized power in June was to denounce the schemes for Pan-African subversion, which had been so dear to his predecessor, Ah med Ben Bella - and which had proved so costly to Algeria. The gaunt new Premier has ended the fat subsidies handed out to the 22 foreign revolutionary movements based in Algiers, ordered exiles to stop their political activities or leave the country. As if to prove his good intentions last week, the government newspaper El Moudja-hid published long front-page tributes to Upper Volta and the Ivory...
...Mahalia Jackson, 53. "Just a little humming around the house. The muscles were all relaxed, and I wondered how it would come out." After eleven months' convalescence following a heart attack, Mahalia was still a little weak and scaled down from her old 250 Ibs. to a relatively gaunt 160 Ibs. She needn't have wondered about her rich contralto: it came out just fine. To save her the wear of traveling to studios on the East or West coasts, Columbia Records hauled some special tape equipment to Chicago. And there last week in the choir loft...
Though the Tories may not need Sir Alec now, they owe the former 14th Earl of Home, who gave up his title to become Prime Minister when Harold Macmillan stepped down, a large debt. The gaunt, gracious aristocrat was hardly a public figure when he moved from the foreign secretaryship to No. 10 Downing Street. He inherited a party embarrassed by the Profumo-Keeler scandal and racked by dissension over his own selection. After nearly 13 years in power, the Tories were visibly tired and the public seemed overwhelmingly ready for a switch to Labor. Sir Alec managed to rally...
When Algeria's shadowy new regime finally found its voice last week, foreigners and Algerians alike could hardly believe their ears. Colonel Houari Boumedienne, the gaunt, fiery-eyed army commander who ousted Ahmed ben Bella last month, left no doubt of his aims or of his determination to achieve them. "Algeria," he proclaimed, "just wants to be Algeria...