Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With Rome's ocher-tinted buildings fairly glowing in the late-afternoon sun, Pope John Paul II, 61, made his way gingerly down the steps of Gemelli Hospital, almost three weeks to the hour after being felled by a terrorist's bullets. He appeared gaunt and a trifle pale, but the sparkle was back...
Meanwhile, about 3½ miles away, Italian police were still trying to make sense out of the bizarre maunderings of Mehmet Ali Agca, the gaunt and hollow-eyed Turkish gunman who felled John Paul in what he termed a "protest against the imperialism of the Soviet Union and the United States." The terrorist told interrogators that he had first wanted to kill the "King of England" as well as the President of the European Parliament. He said he changed his mind after discovering that Britain was ruled by Queen Elizabeth II and the Europarliamentary President was a woman, Simone Veil...
...live she was a young pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from here eyes and left them a sober gray: they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled...
...Nader enters the airport he begins to speak more quickly: he glances somewhat nervously from side to side. It seems clear that he does not enjoy public attention. Several passengers inside the terminal recognize his tall, gaunt figure immediately and whispers of "that's Ralph Nader over there!" are audible. "He looks younger in person than on television." one woman says. Nader doesn't look at them, but keeps walking straight ahead toward the gate. Two people holding pro-nukes posters are talking to passengers as they pass by. Nader tries to avoid them, but one of them recognizes...
...President's fever was gone and his lung unclogged. Slightly gaunt, but on the mend, he padded last week at half speed around his hospital room. Then at week's end Ronald Reagan was driven in a limousine from George Washington University Hospital back home to the White House. Awaiting him there were some 75,000 letters and telegrams, several meadows' worth of flowers and an even ton of jelly beans...