Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While this complex set of circumstances is affecting the whole campaign in New Jersey, it is wound tightest around Clifford Case Jr., a gaunt (6 ft, 158 Ibs.), intense, intelligent lawyer from Rahway (pop. 21,000), who is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator...
...Anthony Eden. They sat about a huge, hollow, rectangular table covered with deep blue felt-Chairman Anthony Eden, lounging debonairly; John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister; Joseph Bech from Luxembourg; Johan W. Beyen of The Netherlands; dark-jowled Premier Pierre Mendès-France, reading a magazine. The pressing task before them was to fill the void left by the French...
...right to annul decisions of the State Council (Cabinet), which gives Liu a veto over his rival, Chou Enlai, who was reappointed Premier. Liu's name now follows Mao's on all lists, and leads the rest when Mao's does not appear. Tall, gaunt Liu Shao-chi is one of the least known of the Peking rulers, a humorless man whose slightest pronouncement on Communist theory rings among the party rank and file more loudly than the bombast of other figures. His wife once said of him: "He has an inexorable heart...
...their mistresses were every bit as toothsome as the ginger fritters. Such a dish was Katherine de Roet, the daughter of an obscure herald. She had scarcely settled down at the court of Edward III when she was nearly raped by a dour Saxon knight. The gay John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, later prominent in Shakespeare ("Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee"), rescued Katherine and saw her safely married to the knight. But soon John, too, was panting after her. Eventually, she presented John with four bouncing bastards, who were legitimized by King and Pope...
...addition to his regular routine. In an audience with a group of doctors, the Pope said that he was not yet fully recovered, but must keep to his tasks. As he spoke, the camera caught Pius in a remarkable picture (see cut), showing his face cheerful but even more gaunt than usual...