Word: gauntly
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...desert of Los Alamos, N.M., and hundreds of scientists were shipped in. A physics Dream Team was assembled: Teller, Hans Bethe, and Richard Feynman, among others. The heavy responsibility of overseeing these great minds and building the bomb wore away at Oppenheimer. Two years in, he only carried a gaunt 115 pounds on a 5-foot-10-inch frame, and his four-to-five pack-a-day cigarette habit did not help his health. These chapters in the book center on the physicists’ lives while leaving the scientific aspects on the backburner—a focus that most...
...Pale and gaunt, Whitworth pleaded "not guilty" to all charges, which, if he is convicted, could keep him imprisoned for the rest of his life. James Larson, his attorney, claimed that "the Government has systematically exaggerated the significance of the information that it believes has been passed by Mr. Whitworth." Justice Department sources told TIME that plea-bargaining discussions were under way with Whitworth's attorneys. If Whitworth pleads guilty and testifies against John Walker, he would not undergo the humiliation of a trial...
...playwrights, Arthur Miller took last week's success with caution. WHEN A FRIEND SAID THAT HE HAD 'ARRIVED,' MILLER PROTESTED: 'YOU NEVER ARRIVE, REALLY. There's always the next one ... Anybody in this business who thinks he's an expert is kidding himself.' A lanky, relaxed man with a gaunt Lincolnesque face, Playwright Miller, son of a coat manufacturer, played high-school football in Brooklyn, worked as shipping clerk, truck driver and dishwasher to raise his tuition at the University of Michigan ... 'I'm interested in tragedy,' says Miller. 'I want to discover the ordinary man in the extreme...
...messenger was at least superficially different. Whereas he had earlier looked gaunt and tired, he seemed healthy and well groomed, if a bit thinner. He used both hands despite earlier reports that one of his arms had been injured in Afghanistan. Gone were the fatigues and the AK47. Bin Laden wore a golden robe, sat behind a desk and read from notes. The media-conscious terrorist leader seemed to be trying for the image not of a soldier but of a statesman--or at least of a TV host...
America's closest allies in the hunt seem unenthusiastic. Nearly three years after closing in on bin Laden and losing him in the Tora Bora mountains, Pakistani and Afghan intelligence officials claim that the trail is cold. The last credible sighting of the gaunt terrorist in chief was more than a year ago along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, according to a senior Pakistani intelligence official. "He is quiet," adds the Islamabad official. Says an Afghan official in Kabul who works closely with the U.S. search team: "There's nothing here to go after. Bin Laden's fallen off the radar...