Word: gaunt
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Washington's basic plan was established last winter by his British-trained second in command, gaunt, hot-tempered Major General Charles Lee. Before going south to take command in Charles Town, South Carolina, Lee studied New York. His conclusions: since the two best military plans (burning the city or simply abandoning it to Howe) were both politically and morally objectionable, the only way open was a defense that would show the flag and yet make the British pay heavily for taking the city. He persuaded Washington to 1) keep most of his troops dispersed around New York...
...former British lieutenant colonel of infantry who took up soldiering at the age of 15, learned six languages, once served as major general to the King of Poland, is an adopted son of a Mohawk tribe, and has lately been celebrated as a pamphleteer against the British Crown. A gaunt unkempt figure racked with gout, Lee is highly critical of other men's soldierly skills. "Booby-in-chief' was his sobriquet for one hapless general under whom he served during the French and Indian...
Pain is much more readily conveyed by art than ecstasy, presumably because it is more tactile, and the santeros lost no opportunities to stress it. Saint Acacius, an early Christian warrior-martyr, is shown crucified in Mexican military costume, flanked by a V-shaped row of contemporary soldiers. The gaunt, hacked Christs drip blood by the pint, their rib cages and muscles have a flayed pathos that transcends the crudeness of carving and drawing; and in some pieces, like the articulated figure of the Standing Christ, with rawhide-hinged elbows, the imagery of pain acquires an immense expressive force...
...standards, it was a week of abnormal tension and turmoil. The carefully engineered truce imposed on that divided nation by Syria had collapsed (see below). Bitter fighting continued between hard-pressed Christian rightists and forces of the National Movement, an amalgam of Moslem leftists and Palestinians led by a gaunt, shambling politician-mystic, Kamal Jumblatt (see page 34), who vowed to fight on until Lebanon's antiquated sectarian political system was reformed...
Apart from the Iranians, many of the students did talk. With all but one or two, however, their fear of giving political offense led them to apparent contradictions. Aaron Poku-Appiah '78, an advanced standing sophomore, is a tall, gaunt Ghanaian, an Ashanti whose English accent has been honed from birth in London, and his summer visits there throughout his high school years. Speaking English was encouraged by his father, an Oxfordtrained criminal lawyer, Poku-Appiah says, because "it enforced the identity of elite people in Ghana...