Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditionally starved upstate Democrats to get them to slave for Ave. Periodically he toured all 62 counties. He cut ribbons or pulled switches on new projects, some of them started by his predecessor, Tom Dewey. He funneled money into new roads and schools, did it without substantially increasing taxes. Gaunt, autocratic Averell Harriman, turning 67 and testy, even learned to chuckle while chucking babies and trading supermarket small talk. As the 1958 election approached, Harriman's party was out of the financial red; his opponents for the moment were out of worthwhile candidates and issues. Honest Ave took...
...Gaunt and pale from recurrent flu attacks and daily overwork, President Arturo Frondizi battled his way through the worst crisis in his regime's troubled three months of life. He won a breather last week mainly because the going got rough enough to alarm even the Peronistas who had started all the trouble...
...artists and architects from 1930 until Nazi pressure forced him to close it in 1933, migrated to the U.S. in 1938. Popular renown came, along with occasional harsh words from Wright and other critics, with Mies's design of Illinois Tech's clean-lined campus, a gaunt set of Chicago apartments, and his career-capper, Manhattan's glass and bronze Seagram building (TIME, March 3). Replies thickly accented Mies to attacks on his decoration-bare style: "I don't compromise. I would rather sell potatoes...
...cluster of crew-cuts congealed at a brick wall and pitched pennies and told jokes and joined in spasmodic bursts of coarse laughter. A gaunt, triangular face asserted by a brown goatee told Portia her slip was showing. "It's snowing down south," he said wryly...
Untranquilizing as was the heaving exterior, the interior was still more disturbing. What most visitors saw first walking through the caterpillar's insides was the figure of a gaunt man with porthole-sized gaps in his anatomy, holding a staff topped with a mostly black butterfly. This, said Dali in an explanatory blurb, "portrays human anxiety." Next on the way "toward a harmonious tranquillity" came a diaphanous female figure with a winged-egg head, who carried a staff with a crepuscular moth. The third figure was what Dali called "the true butterfly of tranquillity"-a maiden in yellow, with...