Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Schwable, 45, is now a thin, gaunt, nervous man. He stared from deep-set eyes as he took the stand to explain what had happened to him and how his mind had reacted during his miserable and degrading 14 months at the hands of the Reds. "Perhaps I would have been more fortunate if I had [undergone actual physical torture], because people nowadays seem to understand that better," he said. "This was a torture of a more subtle form...
Suddenly Paris was aware that a man was organizing a Resistance against the cold. Bearded and gaunt, wearing a black cape with the flair of an actor, a 41-year-old priest called Abbé Pierre was rocketing through the city in a tiny green Renault, collecting old clothes, setting up distribution points, opening emergency shelters. From radios and the stages of theaters, on street corners and in churches, the soft voice of Abbé Pierre appealed: "My friends, help...
...little better than the plant. A lifelong automan, he had risen to the top in General Motors' German subsidiary, Adam Opel, A.G., and bossed its big truck plant during the war. At war's end, he had lost his job, his money and most of his belongings. Gaunt and hungry, Nordhoff scraped along for two years on handouts from friends; because he had been a top executive, he was forbidden to work in the U.S. zone at anything except manual labor-and even such jobs were not to be had. But the British asked him to boss Volkswagen...
...sunshine, and late into the night, 14,209 Chinese anti-Communists poured across the line. They broke ranks to embrace the welcomers. They passed out mimeographed pamphlets thanking "Dear U.N. honorable fighters" for not letting them go back to Communism. One gaunt P.W. hailed an Irish Franciscan friar he had known in the camps of Koje Island. "That was Kuo Shu-han," the priest said. "Among the men he is a hero. He went into a 1,500-man compound dominated by Communists, and brought out 300 anti-Communists." A middle-aged P.W. thanked a young lieutenant, then broke down...
...outside hundreds waited vainly to get in. On the stage, the country's top entertainers trooped to the microphone to sing and play in a two-hour broadcast over Mexico's 254 radio stations. All of the 50-odd songs they sang were the work of a gaunt, sad-eyed, scar-faced wisp of a man who watched from the wings. His name: Agustin Lara, who was celebrating the 25th anniversary of his career as Mexico's and Latin America's favorite composer...