Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee for two months until a majority forced it out. When the measure reached the House floor last week, "Judge" Smith took command of Southerners marshaling to defeat or disembowel it. The bill's backers steeled themselves for diatribe and delay, quorum calls and quixotic demands. But with gaunt, mild-looking Howard Smith calling the shots, they were never more wrong...
...restive talent of the young Picasso, tramping about Paris with a Browning automatic flamboyantly tucked in his belt, was quickly evident as he began to paint gaunt laundresses, half-starved nudes and such El Greco-haunted scenes as Blind Man's Meal. Their signature was the all-pervading blue monotone, a color which Picasso has since explained "was not a question of light or color. It was an inner necessity to paint like that." The clowns and buffoons of the Rose period that followed still astonish by their sure draftsmanship and haunting melancholy...
...priest-shortage problem was ably presented to the hierarchy by tall, gaunt Louis-Marie Fernand de Bazelaire, 64-year-old Archbishop of Chambéry, but the solutions he had to offer seemed nothing more than restatements of the problem: a revival of faith, an appeal to the generosity of laymen, and the request that Catholic parents encourage their children to become priests or nuns...
...Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, the young King presented ownership deeds for 40-acre plots of land to 20 landless fellahin. The land transfer was particularly symbolic to Iraqis: it marked the first time the area has been irrigated since Mongol hordes wrecked their elaborate irrigation systems 700 years ago. Gaunt, copper-skinned E'Elawi Aboud was one of the first to receive his deed. "My father, my father's father and I have all worked the same land for the same sheik's family," said E'Elawi Aboud. "The sheik got half the crop and treated...
...sister editions in London and Paris, and won the Legion of Honor from a French government grateful for her grooming of Dame Fashion. Occasionally, Fashion defied Chase: her crusade against open-toed shoes ("inappropriate, unsightly, dirty") got nowhere, and her scorn failed to stop the rise of the gaunt-cheeked fashion model. "I've never seen so many slatterns in my life," she once huffed, flipping through Vogue...