Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hemingway, says Iain Allan, a mountain climber whose Nairobi company arranges treks up Kilimanjaro, mostly for Americans. "Americans were brought up on his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and they simply have to come and see for themselves." What they find is not one but two forbidding peaks: gaunt, craggy Mawenzi and snowcapped Kibo, the summit that looms over Harry, Hemingway's gangrenous protagonist, "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white...
Coach: Joe, Joe where did your championship go? Joe Restic, gaunt giant of the Multiflex, is having a rough season. The breaks are going against him. His quarterback situation is in disarray. He alone keeps up a smiling countenance. He alone maintains the Crimson is as happy now as it has ever been...
...name, would probably wish for me to say that I learned a great deal about Mathematics, Systematics, German, Fine Arts, Sanskrit, Archaeology, Biology, and Pottery, during my three and a half years at fair Harvard. But somehow, what little book learning I have acquired here seem pale and gaunt compared to the true wisdom I have come to call my own. Stand ever firm, O Stacks of Widener; but not down thy revered stacks shall I tread...
Police threw up roadblocks and used megaphones to urge residents to stay indoors. A helicopter carrying marksmen with sniper rifles whirred overhead, and teams of police with pump shotguns flooded the streets. By 2:30 p.m. they had tracked Ryan to the John O'Gaunt elementary school, which he had attended as a child. Trained negotiators arrived to talk to him, but to no avail. Shortly after 8 p.m., a muffled shot rang out. Ryan had become his own last victim...
...former Plant Director Viktor Bryukhanov, 51, and former Chief Engineer Nikolai Fomin, 50. The three men have already been stripped of Communist Party membership and have spent the past year in a Kiev jail, awaiting trial. Wearing plain dark suits and shirts open at the collar, all three looked gaunt and weary...