Word: gauntness
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...Gaunt Faces. In such a book, arrangement counts heavily. Picture History's twelve sections skillfully plait far-flung but interrelated events into a clean-cut chronology. The result is a sense of historical meaning, from Hitler's first martial rumbles to the dramatic ceremony on the deck of the Missouri. Much of the book's clean impact comes from the 75,000-word text, written mostly by Novelist John Dos Passos and TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. Closely wedded to the pictures, their text is at once sharp description and lucid interpretation...
...pictures that recall the facts of war as they were. An opening shot of hundreds of helmeted Germans standing still and steely as cars in a parking lot brings back the initial awesomeness of Nazi arms. The ferocity of the advancing Japanese is reflected in the gaunt faces of U.S. soldiers captured at Bataan. Color pictures of London under the blitz are reminders that it takes less than an atom bomb to turn a city into a hell. The slowly swelling might, the losses and final victories of the Allies are recorded in pictures that sometimes hurt and sometimes lift...
Distended Stomach. Moreover, there were innovators such as King Akhnaton, who came to the throne about 1370 B.C. He demanded that his trembling sculptors carve him as he really looked: "Elongated head, gaunt face, slender limbs, distended stomach-no detail of this kind was spared ... On the contrary everything that was wrong from that aesthetic point of view was exaggerated, just like those modern works which strike the imagination while shocking established opinion...
...24th the relief it so sorely needed and deserved. The new arrivals were fresh and eager. Their commander, Major General Hobart Gay, promised a bottle of champagne to any man who got a Communist tank. As Gay's men moved up to the front, they met the gaunt, bone-tired G.I.s of the 24th Division, some barefooted, some almost naked, all staggering from exhaustion...
Theodore Shadrick, a gaunt, silent man with a face seamed by 37 years in the coal mines, was eating breakfast with his wife when he heard the sound of running feet. A neighbor burst through the doorway of the Shadricks' mountain shack with a breathless shout...